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NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by spockz »

YVoyiatzis wrote: post #57
heyflyguy wrote: post #51

It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!

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Well, yes? The medical issue is apparently severe enough to warrant return. Because the crew dragon is the only way for those astronauts back, barring sending another one up shortly, they also have to come back.

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by thot_experiment »

YVoyiatzis wrote: post #57
heyflyguy wrote: post #51

It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!

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Bruh, you're talking about one of the most protocol laden risk averse organizations known to man. That's an absurd speculation compared to the thing you would naively expect, which is exactly what is happening.

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by mrpippy »

YVoyiatzis wrote: post #57
heyflyguy wrote: post #51

It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!

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Everyone on the ISS needs to have a seat reserved for them in a docked spacecraft, in case they need to evacuate the station quickly (or for a medical issue like this). You can’t bring back just one person from a 4-person crew; the other 3 would have no way to leave.

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Post by mapmeld »

daeken wrote: post #9
nubg wrote: post #5

Why be so secretive? This is not a military mission. These missions cost a lot of taxpayer money (money well spend you may argue), but we deserve full transparency. You don't get to go to space on other people's money and expect privacy. We might want to learn from what went wrong here.

The astronaut in question may choose to disclose that they had the medical emergency and possibly its nature, but it seems wholly reasonable to not single them out (when it affects the whole mission) or disclose their medical status.

Especially since every movement up and down from space is expensive and risks the life of the crew, it'd be a bad idea for NASA to name the astronaut ahead of time.

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by NooneAtAll3 »

heyflyguy wrote: post #51

It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!

whatever is the cause, it is not immediate - or they would've been on the ground couple days ago

so no, not appendix

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by yesitcan »

SJC_Hacker wrote: post #60
heyflyguy wrote: post #51

It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!

Astronauts are of a breed apart. They're strapped onto a literally bomb which launches them into a vacuum, and windows where there is no chance of a mission abort. They've pretty much accepted a risk of death that most would simply not tolerate. Ex-military is common for astronauts for a reason.

Going on a spaceship is probably safer than driving a car.

Re: NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew

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Post by glemion43 »

YVoyiatzis wrote: post #57
heyflyguy wrote: post #51

It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!

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This mission doesn't matter to any normal human in any relevant way that NASA would need to hide anything.

I'm completely lost on your way of thinking

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