NASA mistakenly sends an emergency message to the International Space Station Sciences

NASA, the North American space agency, mistakenly broadcast last Wednesday (12) a simulation of the affected astronauts. Pressure relief on the International Space Station (ISS), sparking speculation about a possible emergency in posts on social media.

This condition results from the formation of gas bubbles in the bloodstream due to the rapid change in atmospheric pressure.

Through the official account of the International Space Station on the X website (formerly Twitter), the agency denied that an emergency had actually occurred. The episode was a simulated broadcast by mistake.

“The audio was mistakenly transmitted from an ongoing simulation where the crew and ground teams train for various space scenarios, and has no relation to an actual emergency,” the post read.

The simulation was broadcast on NASA’s live YouTube channel, with audio indicating that one of the crew members was suffering the effects of decompression sickness (DCS).

In the video, a female voice asked the crew member to “put the commander back in his suit,” checked his pulse and provided him with oxygen, and later said his prognosis was “poor,” according to copies of the audio recording posted on social media.

But NASA did not verify the recordings or republish the audio.

“There are no emergencies on the International Space Station,” the ISS post added.

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