{"id":4506,"date":"2024-06-13T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/nasa-accidentally-broadcasts-simulation-of-astronaut-in-distress\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:02:09","slug":"nasa-accidentally-broadcasts-simulation-of-astronaut-in-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/nasa-accidentally-broadcasts-simulation-of-astronaut-in-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA accidentally broadcasts simulation of astronaut in distress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA accidentally aired a medical drill meant for training on an official livestream which simulated an astronaut being treated for decompression sickness on the International Space Station (ISS) – prompting alarm on social media.<\/p>\n

The audio, which was broadcast on NASA<\/strong>‘s live YouTube channel, captured a female voice instructing crew members to “get commander back in his suit”, check his pulse and provide him with oxygen – with the prognosis later described as “tenuous”.<\/p>\n

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Recordings of the audio quickly spread on social media, sparking fears of a serious emergency on the ISS.<\/p>\n

“Some very odd, and disturbing, audio just aired on the ISS YouTube feed,” posted one person on X.<\/p>\n

“Something is very not right about this,” wrote another.<\/p>\n

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Decompression sickness, which is caused by nitrogen or other gas bubbles in the bloodstream due to a change in atmospheric pressure, can affect the central nervous system and is potentially fatal.<\/p>\n

However, NASA confirmed there was “no emergency situation” on the ISS and that the audio was inadvertently broadcast from a simulation where crew members and ground teams train for various scenarios in space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“There is no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station<\/strong>,” NASA’s ISS account posted on X.<\/p>\n

It said at around 5:28pm CDT (10.30pm GMT) “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 (DCS)”.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Crew members on the ISS were in their “sleep period” at the time the drill on the ground inadvertently aired, it said.<\/p>\n

A spacewalk scheduled for 8am EDT on Thursday would go ahead as planned, NASA added.<\/p>\n

SpaceX also clarified that what people heard “was only a test”.<\/p>\n

The crew training in Hawthorne, California<\/strong>, were “safe and healthy”, it said.<\/p>\n

Space enthusiasts on Earth were relieved to learn what they had heard was a training exercise:<\/p>\n

“This was our ‘War of the Worlds’ transmission. I’m glad it wasn’t real, those were some very believable comms,” wrote one on X.<\/p>\n

“You freaked us out,” posted another. “The world was scared for a brief time,” said another.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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