Amid rising considerations over Sunita Williams’ well being, NASA not too long ago clarified that every one the astronauts aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) are in “good well being”.
A spokesperson for NASA’s Area Operations Mission Directorate, Jimi Russell, informed Every day Mail that every one the NASA astronauts aboard ISS endure routine medical evaluations and are monitored by devoted flight surgeons.
“All are in good well being,” he stated.
The house company’s assertion comes amid media reviews claiming that Williams is going through a well being disaster after a chronic keep on the ISS.
An image of the NASA astronaut assembling a pepperoni pizza can be doing rounds on social media whereby it seems to be like she has misplaced a major quantity of weight. In accordance with a Seattle-based pulmonologist, Williams seems to be “gaunt” within the image, including that she appears to be experiencing the pure stresses of residing at a really excessive altitude for prolonged intervals.
“Her cheeks seem a bit sunken and normally it occurs whenever you’ve had kind of complete physique weight reduction. ‘I believe what I can discern by her face and her cheeks being sunken in is that she has in all probability been at a major calorie deficit for some time,” the physician informed Every day Mail.
Williams and her fellow astronaut Barry Wilmore have been on the ISS since June. What was presupposed to be an eight-day ISS mission, stretched into months attributable to a Starliner spacecraft malfunction. The astronauts will now return house in February subsequent 12 months.
On October 26, a NASA astronaut – a part of the Crew-8, was hospitalised after getting back from an almost eight-month deployment on the ISS. In accordance with NASA, astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin have been flown collectively to Ascension Sacred Coronary heart Pensacola in Florida. After a medical analysis on the hospital, one of many astronauts was saved below commentary as a precautionary measure. Nevertheless, the small print of the astronaut weren’t revealed to guard the crew member’s medical privateness, NASA stated.
The astronaut was launched a day after in “good well being”, the US house company stated.