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Last month, three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut were diverted to a hospital in Florida upon returning to Earth from the International Space Station — and the cause of the debacle has still not been made public.
As SpaceNews reports, astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps — the three Americans who were taken to a Pensacola hospital upon their return to terra firma in late October instead of going straight to Houston — said in a recent press conference at NASA headquarters that they're in good health and good spirits since that bizarre incident.
"Space flight is still something we don’t fully understand. We’re finding things that we don’t expect sometimes — this was one of those times," Barratt said over the weekend at Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We're still piecing things together."
A trained medical doctor with a "passion" for space medicine, the Washington-born astronaut referred only to the post-splashdown hospitalizations as a "medical event" and kept the agency line when saying he would not disclose which astronaut was hospitalized overnight.
"In the fullness of time," Barratt continued, "we will allow this to come out."
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As SpaceNews reports, astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps — the three Americans who were taken to a Pensacola hospital upon their return to terra firma in late October instead of going straight to Houston — said in a recent press conference at NASA headquarters that they're in good health and good spirits since that bizarre incident.
"Space flight is still something we don’t fully understand. We’re finding things that we don’t expect sometimes — this was one of those times," Barratt said over the weekend at Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We're still piecing things together."
A trained medical doctor with a "passion" for space medicine, the Washington-born astronaut referred only to the post-splashdown hospitalizations as a "medical event" and kept the agency line when saying he would not disclose which astronaut was hospitalized overnight.
"In the fullness of time," Barratt continued, "we will allow this to come out."
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