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NASA remains silent on SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut’s medical problem

Umito November 9, 2024

NASA isn’t yet ready to tell us why one of its astronauts was hospitalized shortly after returning to Earth last month.

This astronaut was one of four members of EspaceXthe Crew-8 mission of International Space Station (ISS), which ended with a splashdown off the coast of Florida October 25.

Everything went well on landing. Soon after, however, the four astronauts – NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Michael Barratt Jeanette Eppsand Alexander Grebenkin of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos – were taken to a Florida hospital for evaluation.

Three of the four astronauts were released the same day, but one stayed overnight “as a precaution,” agency officials said in a statement. an update on October 25. This fourth astronaut was released from the hospital the next day and is doing well, NASA explained in a press release. October 26 blog post.

These updates identified the astronaut in question as a NASA astronaut. But they did not name or specify the illness or its symptoms, citing the need to protect the astronaut’s privacy. And almost two weeks later, these concerns are still relevant.

“Spaceflight is still something we don’t fully understand; sometimes we discover things we didn’t expect,” Crew-8 pilot Barratt said at a press conference Friday (Nov. 8).

“It was one of those moments, and we’re still piecing things together about it,” said Barratt, who is also a doctor. “So, to preserve medical confidentiality and allow our processes to proceed in an orderly manner, that’s all we’re going to say about this event at this time.”

a charred cone-shaped spaceship next to a small boat full of people, lit up in the dark

Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft shortly after it splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean near Florida with the four Crew-8 astronauts on October 25, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)

However, once these processes are completed, NASA will let us know what happened, Barratt added.

“Space medicine is my passion, to be very honest, and the way we adapt, the way we experience human spaceflight is something we all take very seriously,” he said. “When the time comes, we will allow this to be made public and documented.”

Crew-8 lasted 235 days, much longer than a typical ISS crew rotation, which lasts about six months. But other astronauts have been away from their home planet for longer periods than Barratt, Dominick, Epps and Grebenkin.

The record for a continuous space stay, for example, is 437 days, set by cosmonaut Valery Polyakov aboard the Soviet-Russian spacecraft. Mir Space Station in 1994-1995.

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