NASA contacts a hospital in the province of Cadiz to admit an astronaut

NASA contacted the province of Cadiz this week. In particular, with the San Carlos Hospital in San Fernando. The conversation between the controller and the doctor on duty from La Isla caused a storm of indignation. These words were leaked to the aerospace forum NASASpaceflight, and the alarm quickly went off.

On the International Space Station (ISS) public radio channel, NASA spoke with a medical professional this Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. and asked to see Crew 8 mission commander Matthew Dominick as he was in serious condition. due to decompression syndrome. But all this was not real; the astronaut did not have underwater disease, which occurs when nitrogen bubbles appear in the blood due to a drop in external pressure. Everything was a workout.

“I found a hospital in Spain that has intensive care and hyperbaric treatment units. This is the San Carlos Hospital in San Fernando. The telephone number is (…), and the country prefix is ​​+34,” was heard into the channel.

The idea was for the ISS crew to rush back to Earth on the SpaceX Crew Dragon to conduct a rescue mission from Rota Naval Station and from there transport the supposedly sick person to San Fernando.

Following the commotion this Thursday, NASA issued a statement in case there was any confusion. “There is no emergency on board the International Space Station. At approximately 5:28 p.m. CST, audio was broadcast live from NASA’s ground simulation audio feed indicating that a crew member was experiencing effects associated with decompression sickness (DCS). This sound was unintentionally different from the ongoing simulation in which crew and ground crews train for various scenarios in space, and is not related to a real emergency. The crew members of the International Space Station were sleeping at that time. Everyone stays healthy and safe. “Tomorrow’s spacewalk will begin at 8 a.m. Eastern Time as scheduled,” he wrote.

In the end, not a single astronaut ended up in the hospital in San Fernando, and everything remained an interesting anecdote.