Nasa is considering a rare early return of its crew from the International Space Station over an unspecified medical issue involving one of the astronauts, after cancelling a planned spacewalk that had been scheduled for Thursday, the agency said.
A Nasa spokesperson said the astronaut with the medical concern, whom she did not identify, was in a stable condition on the orbiting laboratory.
"Safely conducting our missions is our highest priority, and we are actively evaluating all options, including the possibility of an earlier end to Crew-11’s mission,” the spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday night.
Nasa said in an earlier statement it was “monitoring a medical concern with a crew member that arose Wednesday afternoon”.
People who bet on alien plague for the 2026 apocalypse are getting really hopeful right now.
*NASA
Fight the good fight. I’ll be in the “HAM” communities…
Stable condition, but whatever condition is also serious enough to warrant returning to earth. I hope the astronaut is alright, but that combo makes me really curious what’s wrong. It could be almost anything of course, but I’ve heard some people get extreme vertigo without gravity, so I wonder if that’s it.
but I’ve heard some people get extreme vertigo without gravity, so I wonder if that’s it.
Surely they screen astronauts for that sort of problem on the 3-axis gimbal and the Vomit Comet and whatnot before actually sending them to a long mission on the ISS, right?
I can only imagine that’s the case, but it also seems plausible that it could kick in when you’re in space and not earth, since you actually get a break from the Vomit Comet and other training exercises.
It’s probably something else regardless, inescapable vertigo was just my first thought.
