🚀 In January 2026, astronaut Mike Fincke was eating dinner on the ISS when he suddenly lost the ability to speak. For 20 minutes, he couldn't talk. No pain, no loss of consciousness.
It was the first medical evacuation in the ISS's 26-year history. NASA brought Crew-11 home 8 days later, a month early. As of March, they still don't know what caused it.
The part that should worry you: we've only sent 781 humans to space. Transient speech loss is not a documented spaceflight symptom. With Mars missions on the roadmap, we need to figure this out.
Josh (humble with pride)
in reply to jcrabapple • • •Can we send Trump there? Maybe we’ll get lucky.
Sorry I know your post was serious but I couldn’t resist.
jcrabapple
in reply to Josh (humble with pride) • • •Asheville Charlie
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