An errant call about a sick astronaut startles listeners.
A computer rendering of the International Space Station. The crew aboard the station is safe, after a scare yesterday.mong the most dreaded people at NASA are the folks known as the simsups.
The announcement about a DCS emergency put the Zvezda leak front of mind for listeners on the NASA loop, but ISS officials quickly sounded the all-clear,, formerly Twitter, that the call was just the work of the simsups, the controllers, and an astronaut crew training at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., who were running a simulation and inadvertently crossed their transmissions with the air-to-ground line.
“There is no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station,” the X post read. “At approximately 5:28 p.m. CDT, audio was aired on the NASA livestream from a simulation audio channel on the ground indicating a crew member was experiencing effects related to decompression sickness . This audio was inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation where crew members and ground teams train for various scenarios in space and is not related to a real emergency.
Space station activities are proceeding more or less as planned today, though the spacewalk, involving NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick, was postponed. As of 10:40 AM EDT, NASA had not announced the cause of the postponement, but the errant DCS “emergency” does not appear to have been the reason.TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.
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