Unintentionally, NASA broadcast a simulation of astronauts receiving decompression sickness on the International Space Station ( ISS) on Wednesday, which created a stir and suscitation on social media.
According to an official statement from Nasa on its ISS X account, audio from a crew member’s live YouTube channel at around 5:28 pm US Central Time ( 2228 GMT ) was broadcast at that time.
The crew members were reportedly told to “get the captain again in his suit,” test his signal, and give oxygen in accordance with the audio’s description of the woman’s “tenuous” prognosis. The rumours of a major disaster aboard the ISS rapidly spread across social media platforms.
But, Nasa made it clear that the voice was accidentally sounded during a simulation in which ground crews and astronauts practiced their responses to different space-related scenarios. The ISS X account posted,” This voice was unintentionally misrouted from an ongoing model and is not related to a real emergency.” ” The International Space Station is not in an emergency condition.”
Decompression sickness, also known as” the bends,” occurs when nitrogen or other gas bubbles are created in the bloodstream as a result of changes in atmospheric pressure, which can have a severe impact on the central nervous system and be fatal. Despite the alarming music, NASA assured the people that the ISS crew members were sleeping during their scheduled hours of operation when they prepared for a Thursday 8 am EDT astronauts.
Following the incident, Nasa’s ISS YouTube channel, where the music was broadcast, displayed an error information indicating the supply had been interrupted.
( With agency inputs )
