Clayton Anderson
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first heard Jan 2026
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We were fortunate enough on my five months that we had Oleg Kotov, who was a medical doctor on board.
We never needed his services for the most part, but I was trained to take blood.
I was trained to pull a tooth, several basic medical things.
Although if I were to have been called upon to do some of those things.
I would have told the crew member that I was working on that, hey, it's possible you're going to die because, I mean, I'm not a doctor.
And, you know, you maybe practice those skills three or four times, and then you don't think about those skills for a long time until you get to space and maybe have to use them.
And so that's a concern for me for long duration missions to the moon or to Mars.
Do we need a doctor on board?
I mean, an appendix attack, if it's not dealt with, can be fatal.
Yeah, if you think about this, as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and all these people begin to send more and more folks into outer space, many of those people are not medically cleared like astronauts.
We're looked at every which way to Sunday.
And when we fly into space, there's a pretty good chance that we're going to be very, very healthy when we go into space.
But if we think about commercial spaceflight, all those other things that you mentioned become more possible, more prevalent.
And how do you deal with those things when you have them?
For example, if there was a situation where you would need to provide fluids intravenously to an astronaut and then decide that they need to come home, what do you do about that person's spacesuit?
How do you get them into the vehicle?
I mean, there's lots of issues that, to my knowledge, we haven't really thought about yet.
It would be a variable answer depending on when you undocked and where you targeted landing.
It could be hours.
But if it were an emergency situation where you couldn't exactly predict where you're going to land such that you'd have people waiting for you there, it could be a harrowing situation.
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