seems like a normal thing after that long in space. am i missing something?
No, you're not missing anything. This whole thread is an embarrassment. Space is hard on the body and one of the astronauts wasn't feeling 100% when they came back.
NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown
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#42My take is that it could be the excessive vibrations and shocks inside the Dragon ship.
Iirc, some Dragon passengers already "semi-complained" about that in the past.
Now the NASA probably has agreements with SpaceX discouraging them to speak about that kind of problems.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
NASAs entire budget is 0.47% of the national budget in 2020. Spare me. Space travel is worth it.
I don't think you really read what I wrote.
there are lots of places taxoayer pay for which never see the light of day. i thimk ultimately though, this is not atall about that. they have very lenghty projects to get to root causes of issues. before such a project is fully completed and signed off on, they will not sah a word. before they have all the answers, you will get none. places of science -generally- work like this. no poitin bringing out incomplete information or uncertainties especially in siluch a place which faces a lot of public scruitiny.
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#44Plot twist (thriller/sci-fi)
astronauts sent to psychiatric asylum after
a) confessing that earth is flat after landing. b) confessing that they landed of different version of Earth they originally departed from c) suggesting that whole time they were in simulation and spacex is fancy alien vr tech d) a new kind of virus affecting gravity particle / waves borked physics in thir legs and they can't walk normally
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#45Just a wild guess without anything backing it up and to get the guessing party started... something like decompression sickness? edit: love the answers, but would rather party.
My wild guess is seasickness. It's not supposed to happen to astronauts due to training and such, thus perhaps the unwillingness to say who. But tight quarters, seas were rough. You get the other astronauts checked out also just in case. I really don't have evidence for this though beyond wild speculation.
I've never heard of anyone being hospitalized for motion sickness. Symptoms stop quickly once the patient is back stationary on solid ground.
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#46Andromeda strain on the one hand; gravity sucks on the other. There must be a psychological/neurological toll, like wearing prismatic glasses that invert your vision until the mind adjusts.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, but there's nothing about the NASA space program which has a "deal" to be transparent with the tax payer. From being involved with high altitude spy planes and stealth planes during the Cold war through to thinking about the many satellites that are put into space that relates to national security and even the clandestine space plane, we have no idea what it's for... There is simply no precedent to be upset ab…
Yes there is. It is called a social contract.
"Social contract" is a term people use to try and bully people into things they never agreed to. Non-imaginary contracts require acceptance.
The essential elements of a social contract:
- I want it to be true real bad
- Other people are forced to comply with it
- I dictate the terms unilaterally
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re still figuring out what happened. When they know, we’ll know. NASA does not have authority to unilaterally release medical information of its astronauts, so there’s nothing to say until the problem is identified.
Where does he say they don’t know what happened? He said they’re piecing things together, i.e. they’re still working on their story.
That's not what those words mean.
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#49They are here ?
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#50Some people seem to deal with long-term zero-G better than others. The cosmonaut who spent the longest continuous time in space was Valeri Polyakov, who spent 437 days in zero G in the early 1990s, came back fine, had a good career after returning, and recently died at age 80.
Makes me think of the gravity torture scene of people who grew up in low G from The Expanse