The international Space Station as seen by an approaching spacecraft. There was no emergency situation on the station on June 12, 2024, NASA says.It sounded like a nightmare scenario: An astronaut commander on the International Space Station in distress, suffering from decompression sickness and a flight surgeon on Earth stuck in traffic giving advice that was broadcast live on an official
In the simulation audio, which ran for about eight minutes on NASA's International Space Station livestream channels, a flight surgeon can be heard giving advice on how to treat an astronaut in the. She advises responders to get the astronaut back in his spacesuit quickly and on pure oxygen, while also sharing details for a hospital in Spain for emergency hypobaric treatment after returning to Earth with an ocean splashdown.
Decompression sickness is a very real danger for astronauts in space as they live in a pressurized habitat surrounded by the harsh airless. During spacewalks, astronauts in pressurized spacesuits exit the ISS by depressurizing its airlock and opening an outer hatch. The reenter by shutting the hatch behind them, repressurizing the airlock and opening an inner hatch once they reach equilibrium. Only then do they take off their spacesuits.
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