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Posted on 03/29/2026 7:58:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The astronaut who prompted NASA’s first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don’t know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station.
Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he was eating dinner on Jan. 7 after prepping for a spacewalk the next day when it happened.
He couldn’t talk and remembers no pain, but his anxious crewmates jumped into action after seeing him in distress and requested help from flight surgeons on the ground.
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Fincke, 59, a retired Air Force colonel, said the episode lasted roughly 20 minutes and he felt fine afterward. He said he still does. He never experienced anything like that before or since.
Doctors have ruled out a heart attack and Fincke said he wasn’t choking, but everything else is still on the table and could be related to his 549 days of weightlessness.
He was 5 and a half months into his latest space station stay when the problem struck like “a very, very fast lightning bolt.”
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Nobody can speak in space.
NASA needs to consult FReeperdom...
Mini stroke caused by stress while preparing for a space walk.
Should never have been assigned to space.
I bet he is a dem favored appointee.
He ate the fish, then he could not speak jive.
In space no one can hear you scream.
After spending 5 months huffing everyone’s ass gas, I probably wouldn’t be able to speak either.
White guy. USAF MIT/stanford test pilot, usual stuff.
No public revelations re politics
58/59 year old astronaut in space for HUNDREDS of days?
Doesn’t sound like a great idea.
If you were sitting thinking that in about ten hours you were about to risk your life by venturing into some dark void, totally dependent on multiple factors and people over which you have absolutely no real control, soon a switch just might go off in your brain and suddenly, you couldn’t speak.
I wish you couldn’t type
Was there a woman on the crew?
women have infinite number of words per day- men only have roughly around 1000 words per day- maybe he just ran out of words?
In his case, it was a predictor of the onset of dementia. Over the course of a few years, he became gradually incapacitated with typical signs of Alzheimers, and later passed away from the conditions.
He shoulda had the lasagna...
Isn’t 59 a bit long in the tooth to be going to space?
Why is he in space? Isn’t he king of the river ;-)
Send the squad up there till the end of the Trump presidency.
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