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NASA gives update on astronauts mysteriously hospitalized
The Daily Mail via msn ^ | 05 Nov 2024 | Ellyn Lapointe For Dailymail.Com

Posted on 11/06/2024 10:15:52 PM PST by blueplum

NASA today insisted stranded astronaut Sunita Williams is safe and healthy amid growing public concern for her health.

But the space agency again refused to give any details about four astronauts who were mysteriously hospitalized late last month after returning from a separate space mission...

A doctor raised concerns about Williams this week after a photo showed her looking 'gaunt', suggesting she had lost a significant amount of weight after spending more than 150 days stuck on the International Space Station....

Concern over Williams came less than two weeks after the hospitalization of four NASA/SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts, who splashed down off the coast of Florida on October 25.

The crew had spent 232 days aboard the ISS. ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; iss; mars; nasa; space; spacex; suritawilliams
NASA appears to be keeping the health effects of extended space time on the down low, but more evidence of some serious concerns/hurdles is being disclosed separately, from loss of muscle tone to eye problems to radiation damage:

Add astronaut nutrition to the list of barriers to long-duration spaceflight

Health research launches into orbit to discover how spaceflight affects blood

What are the risks of spending too much time in space?

1 posted on 11/06/2024 10:15:52 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

If we are serious about further manned space exploration we need to improve radiation shielding. We also need to find a way to simulate gravity. There have been a few effective ways to do this, like spinning crew environments.

CC


2 posted on 11/06/2024 10:20:35 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: blueplum
NASA appears to be keeping the health effects of extended space time on the down low

It appears humans are prisoners of earth, due to the intense radiation of the Van Allen belts and the effects of prolonged zero-gravity on the human body. Which is fine. Space exploration is best left to AI and unmanned devices.

3 posted on 11/06/2024 10:29:02 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
NASA, just another branch of the DNC.

4 posted on 11/06/2024 10:34:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: blueplum

Is Sunita one of those DEI hires ?

Sonu was a highly accomplished disciple of the Buddha. He was born in a family of untouchables whose job was of sweeping around the temple area. According to Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s translation of the Theragāthā account, Sunīta laments: Sunīta continues, describing his meeting with the Buddha and ordination: Sunīta practiced arduously and eventually became an Arhant.

or is it just a cohencidence that 2 of these females have crashed and burned at the same time


5 posted on 11/06/2024 10:45:30 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

We should study space but I am not sure that humans are meant to be out there. That will be plenty of time to travel in space with God in the afterlife. I know that might sound a little backwards, but our bodies aren’t meant to be out there. I know that squash is a lot of dreams of going to Mars, but I think we’re gonna find that human beings don’t hold up as well as we thought we don’t know all.


6 posted on 11/07/2024 12:20:18 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

So like dogs and monkeys? Don’t mind me. My lefty sister being a lefty sister.


7 posted on 11/07/2024 12:36:55 AM PST by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11. God Bless Israel.)
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To: Uversabound

We will have to be out there. Whichever nation controls space will control everything.

When Great Britain was surpassed on the seas by the United States, that ended British power and made it essentially dependent on the US, losing some of their sovereignity. It didn’t just affect its naval power, it undercut their industrial strength and economic health, and their national spirit.

The Chinese, Russians, and other enemies would like nothing more than for us to curtail the space program and stop American space exploration. You can bet they have troll armies deployed to undercut US determination in this matter as well as on matters of freedom of the seas.


8 posted on 11/07/2024 2:28:00 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Eventually, man will solve these problems.... With alien help.


9 posted on 11/07/2024 2:47:03 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: blueplum

The effects of extended time in space have been well known for a very long time, decades in fact. These conditions, prevalant even with mitigating practices such as resistance exercises, don’t have a solution at hand nor do any seem practical. How then does anyone expect anyone to live in such conditions for an extended period of time in any location without benefit of radiation shielding or gravity such as earth’s?


10 posted on 11/07/2024 4:03:58 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since Roosevelt.)
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To: blueplum

Don’t sent humans up there. Only send robotic chimps.


11 posted on 11/07/2024 4:08:05 AM PST by dennisw
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To: blueplum

Lots of misinformation in the article. Seems like click bait.

Only one of the astronauts was hospitalized and only overnight.

The doctor giving a diagnosis based on a photo? Really?


12 posted on 11/07/2024 4:43:11 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“Space exploration is best left to AI and unmanned devices.”

Man wasn’t meant to fly.


13 posted on 11/07/2024 4:55:24 AM PST by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: SunkenCiv

“NASA, just another branch of the DNC.”

Is their main mission still “Muslim Outreach” like when Obama was President? It would explain a lot.


14 posted on 11/07/2024 5:10:50 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

It appears humans are prisoners of earth, due to the intense radiation of the Van Allen belts


The minuscule time it take to pass through that region is not time enough for any serious exposure. Maybe like leaning on your granite counter tops.


15 posted on 11/07/2024 5:22:05 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: piasa

The Chinese, Russians, and other enemies would like nothing more than for us to curtail the space program and stop American space exploration. You can bet they have troll armies deployed to undercut US determination in this matter as well as on matters of freedom of the seas.

Which is yet another reason why the leftists hate Trump, and now Elon. They can’t handle the competition.


16 posted on 11/07/2024 5:31:55 AM PST by Danie_2023
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To: blueplum

ON TO PLANT THE AMERICAN FLAG ON MARS!


17 posted on 11/07/2024 11:08:38 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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