NASA astronauts won't say which one of them got sick after almost 8 months in space
Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps Friday publicly discussed their spaceflight for the first time since returning from the International Space Station on Oct 25. They spent nearly eight months in orbit, longer than expected because of all the trouble with Boeing's Starliner crew capsule and rough weather, including Hurricane Milton.
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Soon after their SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast, the three were taken to a hospital in nearby Pensacola along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who launched with them back in March.
One of the Americans ended up spending the night there for an undisclosed "medical issue". NASA declined to say who was hospitalised or why, citing medical privacy.
When asked at Friday's news conference which one had been sick, the astronauts refused to comment. Barratt, a doctor who specialises in space medicine, declined to even describe the symptoms that the unidentified astronaut had.
«Spaceflight is still something we don't fully understand. We're finding things that we don't expect sometimes. This was one of those times and we're still piecing things together on this,» said Barratt, the only member of the crew who had flown in space before.
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