Jared Isaacman
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And that we're keeping our astronauts alive in an environment that is incredibly harsh on their body.
Microgravity does a lot of things to you from your vestibular system, cardiovascular system, bone density loss.
It's a radiation environment, right?
But we're there to learn.
And we expect...
that there will be circumstances that will appear.
This is why we do extensive training.
Our astronauts, they're practically physicians.
In fact, many of them are.
We put them through extensive medical training.
We put medical kits in all our spaceships.
The International Space Station itself is like almost an urgent care center because they use a lot of those tools for science and research.
And then we drill.
We train for the day that there is going to be, you know, an unexpected health-related incident.
And it happens.
And everyone did an extraordinary job.
The Crew 11 astronauts, their other expedition mates on the International Space Station, the flight surgeons in Mission Control, they all responded accordingly.
The incident was stabilized very quickly.
Did you tell us what it was?
Unfortunately, due to the medical privacy rules, I can't tell you exactly what it was, other than clearly it was a very serious situation.