NASA accidentally airs ISS emergency drill for astronauts
NASA has been forced to reassure the public that there is no emergency aboard the International Space Station after audio of a medical drill was accidentally played on a livestream Wednesday night.
NASA has been forced to reassure the public that there is no emergency aboard the International Space Station after audio of a medical drill was accidentally played on a livestream Wednesday night.
The regularly scheduled livestream was interrupted at 6:28 p.m. ET by an unidentified speaker — apparently a flight surgeon — who was playing out a scenario in which she gave the ISS crew advice on how to deal with a commander suffering from serious compression sickness.
The speaker advises the crew to "check his pulse one more time" before it placed the stricken astronaut in a suit pumped full of pure oxygen. She says any action would be "best effort treatment" and better than doing nothing.
"Unfortunately, the prognosis for Commander is relatively tenuous," she says.
She says she is “concerned that there are some severe DCS [decompression sickness] hits” and tells the crew to get him in a suit as soon as possible.
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