A female voice was heard telling crew members to “get commander back in his suit,” check his pulse, and give him oxygen in the recording, which was streamed live on NASA’s YouTube account. The prognosis was later described as “tenuous.”
A catastrophic incident on the International Space Station was feared after recordings of the audio rapidly went viral on social media.
On X, someone wrote, “Some really strange and unsettling audio just aired on the YouTube feed.”
A shift in air pressure can result in nitrogen or other gas bubbles entering the bloodstream, which can produce decompression sickness, which can potentially be lethal and impact the central nervous system.
NASA, however, stated that there was “no emergency situation” aboard the ISS and that the audio had accidentally been released from a drill in which ground staff and crew members practice for a variety of space-related scenarios.
SNASA’s ISS account stated on X that “there is no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station.”
It stated that around 5:28 p.m. CDT ( “audio was aired on the NASA livestream from a simulation audio channel on the ground indicating a crew member was experiencing effects related to decompression sickness (DCS)” .There’s something really wrong with this, another person wrote.
