Update #2 on Chris Hadfield’s condition
canadian-space-agency:
May 16, 2013
An update on Chris Hadfield’s condition
by Raffi Kuyumjian, CSA’s Chief Medical Officer and Hadfield’s Flight Surgeon
Chris is already showing noticeable improvement in his walk and equilibrium since yesterday, but it usually takes about 3 weeks until we are confident a returning astronaut can return to driving. He will be driven to where he needs to be until then.
Today is a bit of a lighter day for Chris to help him recover from effects of gravity, as well as the jet-lag and the 24-hour flight to Houston from the landing site. He has a medical check, a 2-hour reconditioning session and short debrief meetings in addition to this morning’s press conference. He needs the rest as tomorrow is a full day of science data collection, medical checks and reconditioning.
Chris Hadfield: “How does the body control blood pressure? Scarecrow on a tilt table to measure how.”
Photo credit: Chris Hadfield
You can also see this article about his return. Not easy to feel gravity again !
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intentandoseringeniero:
Esquema de la Soyuz por dentro… Parece mentira que ahí quepan 3 personas!
The Soyuz series of spacecrafts : First unmanned launch in 1966 and still in service. (wikipedia)
Expedition 35, May 13, Landing of Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn,
How to open a Soyuz capsule.
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kheldarofdrasnia:
ISS astronauts packed tightly into the Soyuz capsule on their way back to Earth!
Deorbit burn scheduled at 9:37 p.m.. (Eastern time), landing at 10:30 tonight. The live stream will be here. And you can read the twitter of Chris Hadfield (no internet on Soyuz, but his son gives updates).
“Astronauts have described a Soyuz landing as similar to surviving a train wreck.” (source: this excellent article) Good trip to Chris Hadfield and his companions!
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colchrishadfield:
Freeze Frame - pausing for a moment, flying through the Node2-US Lab hatch, with a medical sensor taped to my head.
Salutations to Chris Hadfield who becomes today (March 13) the new commander of the International Space Station.
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colchrishadfield:
Tool Time - everything you might need to fix a Space Station in flight.
kirsten-r:
I’ll never forget being in 6th grade when this happened, my dad still has the picture of him next to a piece of debris he found on the side of the highway in Texas. A sobering reminder of a tragedy I think many forget about. I feel NASA has been too cautious since this disaster. The words of Virgil Grissom who died in the Apollo 1 fire seem to have been ignored at NASA: “If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.”
I wonder today what the 7 astronauts who died 10 years ago would think of us relying on other nations to carry us into space. How would they feel about our country dashing the dreams of so many who grew up looking to the sky wanting to fly among the stars.
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