Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:NASA’s regularly scheduled International Space Station livestream gave viewers a brief, unintended scare last night. At 6:28PM EST on June 12, an unidentified speaker appeared to begin directing ISS crewmembers to treat a commander suffering from severe decompression sickness whose “prognosis… is relatively tenuous.” “Check his pulse one more time,” the person, likely a mission control flight surgeon, reportedly instructed over the broadcast according to NBC News. https://www.
Depressurize too quickly, however, and the issue is almost instantaneously fatal due to brain hemorrhaging—as was sadly the case for three Russian cosmonauts aboard the Salyut-1 capsule in 1971. Knowing the severity of such situations, it took nearly an hour-and-a-half before concerned viewers could breathe a sigh of relief last night.
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