NASA makes a mistake and sends an astronaut to Cadiz

At an altitude of about 500 kilometers above the earth, moving at a speed of about 27,600 kilometers per hour, we find International Space Station (ISS). Several astronauts always live there While in space, they perform various tasks and this can be seen in the live broadcast offered by NASA 24 hours a day.

Although it may seem inconsequential, this NASA broadcast channel is watched by a lot of people, be it astrophysicists, astronomy fans, cosmologists or just curious people, but the truth is that there is always an audience for an online broadcast. One such follower is the NASASpaceflight forum, which reported an event that caused alarm in the province of Cadiz a couple of days ago.

Those who watched the live broadcast could see how the broadcast went dark and the voice-over began to talk about emergency medical care on the space station, In particular, the commander of the mission, Matthew Dominic, was mentioned, who was allegedly suffers from “orbital decompression sickness” known as diver’s disease. For this reason, the ISS initiated an emergency protocol and requested ground clearance to do so.

The surprise came when the voice delivering the message said: “I found a hospital in Spain that has intensive care and hyperbaric treatment units. This is the San Carlos Hospital in San Fernando (Cádiz)”. Considering this statement, The SpaceX ship will have fun at sea around Rota Naval Station.and then transport the astronaut to the aforementioned San Fernando hospital.

It was almost 10 minutes of tension, eight to be exact, although it all turned out to be training it was published in error. NASA itself, through the official International Space Station profile on X (formerly Twitter), had to come out and calm everyone down. “This sound is different from the current simulation and is not related to a real emergency,” he wrote.

The truth is that these exercises are conducted quite frequently, although the exact frequency with which NASA and ISS astronauts conduct them is unknown. The strange thing is that the sound was dragged into the online broadcast. This served as a demonstration of the systems the ISS has for determining the location of medical centers around the world, depending on the problem the astronaut is facing and the position the ship is currently in.