The Devastating Effects NASA Astronauts May Suffer After 9 Months In Space

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Kid Now with Correos the podcast we should say welcome
back to the two astronauts that made it back to
Earth yesterday. Their names are Butcher will Moore and Sonny
Williams and Splashdown Croonine back on Earth but Funny on

(00:23):
behalf of Welcome Home.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
We actually we were watching in the studio after the
show yesterday as they spent like at least an hour trying.
It was like someone trying to open a can of
tuna without a can opener. They just couldn't get them
out of the capsule. It was hilarious, it kind of was.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
And there was this guy with a bit of rope
trying to last see it and then attach it to another.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, it was a lot.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Anyway, let's talk about those astronauts because their annual salary
is between one hundred and one hundred and fifty five
thousand US dollars, which were an American salaries, pretty good,
I guess.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, that seemed disappointing though hard.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
When I tell you what they what happens to them.
Even more so, they do get four dollars a day
for every day they're in space, so lucky and sunny
for two hundred and eighty six days. Got one thousand,
one hundred and forty four bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
That's all I got because there was supposed to be
eight days. They went for nine months.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
No overtime, no, no overtime. They get their salary because
for these people who've been studying forever, this is their dream,
it's the dream job yet and they're so happy. But
let me tell you that happens to their bodies, vision
loss and cognitive decline. Seventy percent of all astronauts who

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go into space will get blurry or fuzzy vision when
they return to Earth because what happens is the fluid,
as I mentioned before, goes from their bottom extremities up
to their head force fluid into the brain that pushes
out their eyes, so they have bug eyes, and that
impacts the rent and their ability to see oh forever. Well,

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some of it it returns to normal, but a lot
of them have it for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's not a good deal, No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
How about this is funny too because because of the
impact to the brain, they then a lot of former
astronauts have been known to take on really risky behavior.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Oh like they make bad decisions after all, yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Because their personality changes.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh my goodness, why not.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
There's muscle and bone loss right so bad? Loss bone
loss of gravity means that they lose bone density and
often have breakages. So you know, normal people at eighty
or ninety might do a hip. An astronaut will do
one at fifty five, and they can't afford to fix
it because only one thousand.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Ye, Sonny and Butcher are pretty old. Really, they were
both I think sixty or thereabouts.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I know. And this is long lasting. Like when
your bone density goes, it's you can't get it back.
And often they've they've done studies to say it's least
half of what it was before they went into space. Wow,
weight loss. They feel nauseous most of the time, they
lose their sense of taste and smell, and there's so
much pressure on their sinuses that they lose appetite. They

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were there for eight months, nine months.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I mean, that's the only upside I can see. I
haven't seen any permanently suppressed episode. I wouldn't mind that
people pay a lot of money for love food. That's
a zepic.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
So talking about that fluid, that fluid heading up five
point six liters migrate to the upper part of the body,
giving what is called is the puffy face syndrome. You
would have seen that on Bush. He actually did have
a really puffy face.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
So you've lost weight, but you still look puffy.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, you look terrible awful. You have chicken legs and
baby feet, and that's where they had to get taken
out on a stretcher because they just couldn't stand up
on their own.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
What's the positives.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
There isn't many, In fact, there's none. They get blood plots,
you know how when you get on a plane.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
We have those DVT yea.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
They have spaceflight spaceflight dbtt oh my goodness, and they
have to be careful. Yeah, and just one week as
an astronaut up in the air, because of your closeness
to the sun, they get so much exposure to radiation
it's the equivalent of one year, so they get an
increased risk of cancer for eight months. I know.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's the worst gig I've ever heard. I've just described the.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Line. I got photos of Raffa yesterday, an atronaut running
around the house like