Barf and you're grounded!!!

"Matt J. McCullar" wrote:
I haven't studied anything on space sickness recently, but I get the feeling
that it's much more understood than it was 30 years ago. From what I've
read, nobody got sick on Mercury or Gemini, but after that all bets were
off. Mike Collins wrote in 1973 that "it just didn't make any sense." Some
pilots got sick, others didn't.

shrug It's the same as seasickness - some people do, some people
don't.

D.
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I heard 5-6 years ago that it was very hard to get Shuttle tours,
even for VIP's, because there's a ...lingering odor therein.... from
various crew members who....

I can add a pilot friend "tossed her cookies" on the Vomit Comet...

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wrote:

Man I love this NG! Let's look at the posters he one is an
international expert on Soviet spaceflight ( yeah JimO that's you!),
one worked at Dryden during the cool lifting body years (Mary), one
chap was actually down in the "trench" in MOCR during Apollo ( Sy
Liebergot), we've got the son of a Mercury astronaut ( Not everyone
agrees with Scott, but he's here too!), the knowledgeable Henry, even
OM, and now a fellow working in the life science group @ JSC.





And not even one word about Firewomen or cute, personality-filled
monkeys, I note.
Well let me tell you something, buddy!
How many of those people you mentioned above have been BITTEN BY A
CROCODILE?
How many of the above people have BLOWN THEMSELVES UP?
How many of THOSE people have TAKEN 20,000 VOLTS, and RAN THEIR HEAD
INTO THE BASEMENT CEILING IN THEIR DAMNED "BOY'S LIFE" LUNAR GRAVITY
SIMULATOR?
I HAVE! And if you read my postings, it shows!
Particularly the last two. :-)

Pat

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says...
"Matt J. McCullar" wrote:
I haven't studied anything on space sickness recently, but I get the feeling
that it's much more understood than it was 30 years ago. From what I've
read, nobody got sick on Mercury or Gemini, but after that all bets were
off. Mike Collins wrote in 1973 that "it just didn't make any sense." Some
pilots got sick, others didn't.

shrug It's the same as seasickness - some people do, some people
don't.

My understanding is that most folks can eventually overcome seasickness.
(Not that the training period isn't awful.) It seems the same is true of
spacesickness. No?

(P.S.: I once bought a joy ride in a small airplane that included
aerobatics. We did wingovers, then a couple of loops. We did the first
half of a Cuban Eight. (would that be a Cuban 4?) I had to tell the
pilot that if we did the second half, I'd loose my breakfast. He replied
that it was time for us to practise flying straight and level for a
while...)
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:18:45 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

And not even one word about Firewomen or cute, personality-filled
monkeys,

....And nor did he mention one word about evading mad cows in a field,
or bombardments from overcast geese.

OM

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How could I forget you Pat! A man that always brings a smile to my
face! Sorry!

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How could I forget you Pat! A man that always brings a smile to my
face! Sorry!

Gene

On or about Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:27:20 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher made the sensational claim that:
I heard 5-6 years ago that it was very hard to get Shuttle tours,
even for VIP's, because there's a ...lingering odor therein.... from
various crew members who....

I toured Endeavour in 2000 and I asked if odor was a problem with returning
vehicles. The guy inside said not really, but that it was slightly worse with
the compacting toilet(vs. the dehydrating toilet). I imaging vomit isn't even
that bad.

I think it's the boogers everyone leaves behind[1] you gotta watch out for.

[1] And I was kicking myself after we got out for not thinking of that. Oh
well, at least my fingerprints have gone up on an OMS pod.
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:15:05 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(Henry Spencer) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

The NASA medical organizational setup (inherited from the military), in
which flight surgeons were charged not with keeping people well but with
grounding them when they became sick, essentially guaranteed that
astronauts would cover up minor medical problems whenever possible. This
badly delayed full understanding of some of these issues; it still
interferes with getting good statistics on decompression sickness (another
area where minor problems often go unmentioned).

I occasionally wonder if there have also been a lot more incidents of
bends than the record shows, both for this reason, and because NASA
doesn't want to have to admit how much the current suit
sucks...errrr...blows...errrrr...