The Boeing Starliner spacecraft prepares to dock with the World Area Station for the primary time on June 6, 2024. (NASA by way of AP)
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Audio despatched out by way of NASA about an injured workforce member aboard the World Area Station on Wednesday night time used to be coaching subject material, the ISS mentioned. The federal area company used to be the use of the audio to simulate a workforce member having decompression illness, but it surely used to be mistakenly picked up on NASA’s livestream. “This audio used to be inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation the place workforce individuals and floor groups educate for quite a lot of situations in area and isn’t associated with an actual emergency,” the ISS mentioned. “The World Area Station workforce individuals have been of their sleep length on the time. All stay wholesome and protected, and the following day’s spacewalk will get started at 8 a.m. EDT as deliberate.”
SpaceX additionally weighed in, pronouncing what the general public heard used to be a check happening in California. “The workforce coaching in Hawthorne is protected and wholesome as is the Dragon spacecraft docked to the @space_station.” The blip stirred up fear on social media. “That’s a reduction tremendous satisfied that everybody is fine and protected and wholesome,” one X (previously Twitter) person mentioned. “That is nice information! The sector used to be scared for a temporary time,” every other person mentioned. Astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick are scheduled to accomplish a spacewalk Thursday to take away a damaged radio frequency field from an antenna at the area station. They’re going to additionally accumulate microorganisms from the distance station’s floor to research how neatly they are able to live to tell the tale and reproduce. The stroll will get started at 8 a.m. ET and final about six and a part hours. It’ll be to be had on NASA’s web site and YouTube channel.
