Ansari's Blog

Don't know if you're following her blog comments but she did report on
some things I found interesting :

1. She didn't participate in the traditional "take a leak on the bus
tires out to the Soyuz" on launch day...guess it didn't bring bad luck
after all...

2. She took motion sickness pills at the launch pad prior to
launch...they seemed to work.

3. The Soyuz spins on it's axis all the way to Station...is this a
"BBQ" mode a la Apollo ??

4. Apparenly sleeping upside down in your sleeping bag hanging from the
center of the Soyuz Habitation module ceiling is a preferred method to
avoid nausea. Didn't seem to work too well for her.

5. She took more motion sickness pill's which seemingly didn't work.
Requested an injection of some kind of anti motion sickness medication
administered by the Soyuz crew...didn't work too well. Got a stronger
injection of the same medication the next day which apparently either
worked or by this time she adjusted to weightlessness. Seems like
Michael Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin spent some time nursing her
through the early stages of their flight to Station

On 24 Sep 2006 12:39:06 -0700, "Jeff Lerner"
wrote:

Got a stronger injection of the same medication the next day which apparently either
worked or by this time she adjusted to weightlessness.

....IIRC, some of the medication injected is regolin, which sometimes
takes a bit of time in order to have any discernable effect on nausea.

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Jeff Lerner wrote:

5. She took more motion sickness pill's which seemingly didn't work.
Requested an injection of some kind of anti motion sickness medication
administered by the Soyuz crew...didn't work too well. Got a stronger
injection of the same medication the next day which apparently either
worked or by this time she adjusted to weightlessness.
I'd hazard a guess it was mostly the latter. Two days is the said to be
the typical adapation time, and she hasn't mentioned further trouble on
ISS. It was interesting to see a first hand account of how unpleasent
SAS can be.

Here's the link in case anyone wants to read it first hand
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/

"hop" wrote in message
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Here's the link in case anyone wants to read it first hand
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/


The smell of space she describes is very interesting: almond cookies? ISTR
the Apollo astros commenting that the CSM/LM docking tunnel had a smell
like something was burning--is that the same smell?

Very interesting reading...unvarnished, untouched by a PR person.

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