Skip to main content

NASA Reveals Identity of Astronaut Who Suffered Medical Incident Aboard ISS

1 month 1 week ago
Longtime Slashdot reader ArchieBunker shares a report from NBC News: NASA revealed that astronaut Mike Fincke was the crew member who suffered a medical incident at the International Space Station in January, which prompted the agency to carry out the first evacuation due to a medical issue in the space station's 25-year history. The rare decision to cut a mission short and bring Fincke and three other crew members home early made for a dramatic week in space early this year. In a statement released by NASA "at the request of Fincke," the veteran astronaut said he experienced a medical event on Jan. 7 "that required immediate attention" from his space station crew members. "Thanks to their quick response and the guidance of our NASA flight surgeons, my status quickly stabilized," Fincke, 58, said in the statement. [...] In his statement, Fincke thanked his Crew-11 colleagues, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, who were also aboard the space station at the time and are still in space. Fincke also thanked the teams at NASA, SpaceX and the medical professionals at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. "Their professionalism and dedication ensured a positive outcome," he said. Fincke ended his statement by saying he is "doing very well" and still actively involved with standard post-flight reconditioning at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "Spaceflight is an incredible privilege, and sometimes it reminds us just how human we are," he said. "Thank you for all your support."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

BeauHD

Error'd: Perverse Perseveration

1 month 1 week ago

Pike pike pike pike Pike pike pike.

Lincoln KC repeated "I never knew Bank of America Bank of America Bank of America was among the major partners of Bank of America."

 

"Extra tokens, or just a stutter?" asks Joel "An errant alt-tab caused a needless google search, but thankfully Gemini's AI summary got straight-to-the-point(less) info. It is nice to see the world's supply of Oxford commas all in once place. "

 

Alessandro M. isn't the first one to call us out on our WTFs. "It’s adorable how the site proudly supports GitHub OAuth right up until the moment you actually try to use it. It’s like a door with a ‘Welcome’ sign that opens onto a brick wall." Meep meep.

 

Float follies found Daniel W. doubly-precise. "Had to go check on something in M365 Admin Center, and when I was on the OneDrive tab, I noticed Microsoft was calculating back past the bit. We're in quantum space at this point."

 

Weinliebhaber Michael R. sagt "Our German linguists here will spot the WTF immediately where my local wine shop has not. Weiẞer != WEIBER. Those words mean really different things." Is that 20 euro per kilo, or per the piece?

 

[Advertisement] Utilize BuildMaster to release your software with confidence, at the pace your business demands. Download today!
Lyle Seaman

China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy

1 month 1 week ago
Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination

The Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to make Beijing look bad is back with another theory: Washington’s actions against cryptocurrency crooks are just attempts to dominate the global financial system.…

Simon Sharwood