{"id":124173,"date":"2024-11-10T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T02:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124173"},"modified":"2024-11-10T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T02:24:45","slug":"crew-8-astronauts-remain-mum-about-post-splashdown-medical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124173","title":{"rendered":"Crew-8 astronauts remain mum about post-splashdown medical issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The three NASA astronauts who returned to Earth on the Crew-8 mission declined to discuss the medical issue that prompted a trip to the hospital after their return and, for one of them, an overnight stay.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, returned to Earth Oct. 25 on a Crew Dragon spacecraft, concluding the 235-day Crew-8 mission. But later that day NASA said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/nasa-astronaut-hospitalized-after-crew-8-return\/\">four were taken to a Pensacola, Florida, hospital for additional medical evaluations<\/a> \u201cout of an abundance of caution.\u201d One of the NASA astronauts was hospitalized in stable condition there, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/crew-8-astronaut-released-from-hospital\/\">but released the next day \u201cin good health.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA did not disclose the identity of the astronaut who was hospitalized or the specific medical concern that prompted the hospital visit. At a Nov. 8 press conference to discuss their mission, the three NASA astronauts declined to discuss details about the incident, citing medical privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceflight is still something we don\u2019t fully understand. We\u2019re finding things we don\u2019t expect sometimes, and this was one of those times,\u201d Barratt, a doctor, said of what he called the \u201cmedical event\u201d after splashdown. \u201cWe\u2019re still piecing things together on this and so, to maintain medical privacy and to let our processes go forward in an orderly manner, this is all we\u2019re going to say about that event at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He deflected later questions at the briefing about the hospitalization. \u201cSpace medicine is my passion,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the fullness of time, we will allow this to come out and be documented. For now, medical privacy is very important to us. We maintain that always in many things we do. The same with due process. Both of those negate our ability to talk about it today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All three said they were gradually adjusting after nearly eight months in microgravity. \u201cIt\u2019s a very slow progression,\u201d said Dominick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s different, and that\u2019s the part you can\u2019t predict,\u201d added Epps.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing came a day after NASA batted down rumors about a health issue with an astronaut currently on the International Space Station. Several articles claimed that astronaut Sunita Williams was in poor health, claims traced to one non-NASA doctor\u2019s assessment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasa2explore\/54018136742\/\">a single image<\/a> of Williams, taken in September, where the doctor claimed that Williams appeared \u201cgaunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA spokesperson Cheryl Warner said Nov. 7 that Wiliams was in good health and that doctors were not \u201ctracking any concerns\u201d with her or other members of the station\u2019s crew: \u201cAll NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station undergo routine medical evaluations, have dedicated flight surgeons monitoring them, and are in good health.\u201d Notably, other images of Williams on the station posted by NASA more recently appear to show her in good health.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spacewalk scrubs<\/h4>\n<p>Before their splashdown, the biggest issue faced by the Crew-8 astronauts was a pair of aborted spacewalks in June. One spacewalk involving Dominick and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was called off because of what NASA called at the time a \u201cspacesuit discomfort issue,\u201d while one later in the month involving Barratt and Dyson was aborted after an umbilical line connecting Dyson\u2019s suit to station systems leaked water when disconnected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not a trivial leak,\u201d Barratt said at the briefing. Since the airlock hatch was open, the leaking water turned to ice, creating \u201ca blizzard\u201d of ice particles. \u201cIt was very dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He praised Dyson for \u201cnowhere short of heroic\u201d actions to reconnect the umbilical despite her hands and visor being covered with ice. \u201cGetting the airlock closed was me grabbing her legs and using her as an end effector to lever that thing closed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a bit of drama. Everything worked out fine and, again, normal processes and procedures saved our bacon,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>He said the problem was traced to a poppet valve \u201cthat didn\u2019t quite seat\u201d on the umbilical\u2019s interface with the suit. \u201cI think we solved that problem by changing out the whole umbilical.\u201d By the time that umbilical was replaced, though, it was too late to begin preparations for another spacewalk before the end of their time on the station.<\/p>\n<p>At a Nov. 4 briefing about the launch of the SpX-31 cargo mission to the station, Bill Spetch, NASA ISS operations and integration manager, said the next spacewalks from the station are planned for early 2025. He also said that \u201choses and other components\u201d in the umbilical were replaced and tested. \u201cAll systems on the suit worked as expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dominick, at the Crew-8 briefing, had little to add about the suit discomfort issue that called off his spacewalk. \u201cWe\u2019re still reviewing it and trying to figure all the details out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged \u201cfrustration\u201d with not being able to perform the spacewalk after years of training on the ground. \u201cThere\u2019s no surprise there that there\u2019s frustration that you put all that effort, all those years, and you\u2019re in the suit ready to go outside and you don\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/crew-8-astronauts-remain-mum-about-post-splashdown-medical-issue\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The three NASA astronauts who returned to Earth on the Crew-8 mission declined to discuss the medical issue that prompted a trip to the hospital after their return &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124173\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}