Er konnte plötzlich nicht mehr im Weltraum sprechen. Der NASA-Astronaut sagt, sein medizinischer Schrecken bleibe ein Rätsel

That is WAY scarier than I expected, even if it maybe wasn’t as dangerous. I thought it would be appendicitis or something common.

As someone who experiences sudden aphasia, I can’t imagine what he felt like. And he’s WAY healthier than I am.

I was really into whitewater kayaking for a while and did roll classes on how to flip back right side up.

One time after class I was stuck talking like Donald Duck and it was really hard to talk for a day afterword. I wonder if this wasn’t something similar. Some airway getting closed off and stuck together. Mine was just for being upside down for a couple minutes. I’m sure we haven’t discovered all the weird ways the body doesn’t work right in free fall for long periods of time.

Astronauts are trained extremely well, but they are still humans, if space travel becomes more commercial one day ordinary untrained people may be able to go outwards into space still with all their human nature, good and bad

It’s nice to confirm that he otherwise felt fine. There were so many comments by people trying to guess who “looked the worst” after splashdown. And after the identity was revealed, people claimed they “knew it” based on their supposed analysis of his visual appearance. As expected, that wild speculation was absolute nonsense.