Nasa shares astronaut health update after four mysteriously hospitalised

Nasa has insisted that 1 of its astronauts stranded connected the International Space Station is harmless and steadfast little than a fortnight aft 4 others were hospitalised.

Concerns person been raised astir the health of Sunita Williams, who on with Butch Wilmore was stranded connected the ISS successful June and won’t beryllium coming backmost to world until aft Christmas.

Dr Vinay Gupta, a pulmonologist successful Seattle, told MailOnline a photograph of Sunita showed her looking ‘gaunt’ suggested she had mislaid a important magnitude of value aft spending much than 150 days stuck connected the International Space Station.

The photo, taken connected September 24, shows her tucking into a pepperoni pizza and chips portion surrounded by condiments and snacks.

He added: ‘Her cheeks look a spot sunken – and usually it happens erstwhile you’ve had benignant of full assemblage value loss.

‘I deliberation what I tin discern by her look and her cheeks being sunken successful is that [she] has astir apt been astatine a important [calorie] shortage for a while.

‘What you’re seeing determination successful that representation is idiosyncratic that I deliberation is experiencing the earthy stresses of surviving astatine a precise precocious altitude, adjacent successful a pressurised cabin, for extended periods.

‘Based connected what I’m astatine slightest seeing successful the photo, I don’t deliberation she’s rather astatine a… spot wherever I accidental her life’s successful danger.

‘But I don’t deliberation you tin look astatine that photograph and accidental she has benignant of steadfast assemblage weight.’

But Nasa holds steadfast that Sunita and the remainder of the astronauts aboard the ISS are doing fine.

‘All Nasa astronauts aboard the International Space Station acquisition regular aesculapian evaluations, person dedicated formation surgeons monitoring them, and are successful bully health,’ spokesperson Jimi Russell said.

The quality comes little than 2 weeks aft 4 Nasa/SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts were hospitalised aft returning to world connected October 25.

The unit had spent 232 days aboard the ISS, and 1 spent the nighttime successful infirmary owed to a ‘medical issue’ portion the different 3 were discharged the aforesaid day.

Nasa refused to supply immoderate details astir wherefore the unit was hospitalized, which astronaut had to implicit an overnight stay, oregon whether the aesculapian issues were related to their instrumentality to earth, citing their astronauts’ aesculapian privacy.

Sunita and Butch person been aboard the ISS for six months arsenic of today, and volition stay determination until astatine slightest February 2025.

By then, they volition beryllium capable to drawback a thrust backmost to Earth connected SpaceX’s Crew-9 ngo Dragon Capsule. 

Weight nonaccomplishment is not uncommon among astronauts during extended ISS missions. In fact, astir suffer astir 5% of their assemblage value during a 4 to six period enactment successful orbit.

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