Amid rising issues over Sunita Williams’ well being, NASA lately 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, advised Each day Mail that every one the NASA astronauts aboard ISS bear 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 studies claiming that Williams is dealing with 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 appears like she has misplaced a major quantity of weight. In line with a Seattle-based pulmonologist, Williams appears “gaunt” within the image, including that she appears to be experiencing the pure stresses of dwelling at a really excessive altitude for prolonged intervals.
“Her cheeks seem a bit sunken and often it occurs if you’ve had kind of complete physique weight reduction. ‘I feel what I can discern by her face and her cheeks being sunken in is that she has most likely been at a major calorie deficit for some time,” the physician advised Each day Mail.
Williams and her fellow astronaut Barry Wilmore have been on the ISS since June. What was alleged to be an eight-day ISS mission, stretched into months because of a Starliner spacecraft malfunction. The astronauts will now return residence in February subsequent 12 months.
On October 26, a NASA astronaut – a part of the Crew-8, was hospitalised after getting back from a virtually eight-month deployment on the ISS. In line with NASA, astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin had been flown collectively to Ascension Sacred Coronary heart Pensacola in Florida. After a medical analysis on the hospital, one of many astronauts was stored underneath remark as a precautionary measure. Nonetheless, 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.