Re: Sick Astronauts and Medical Confidentiality Issues

On Feb 15, 10:26 am, John Doe <j...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

How come then the President of the USA makes a point of allowing his
"clean bill of health" to be released to the public after his yearly
checkups ?

Because HE wants to

How come then when that Cheney had his heart problems, your
nation "had a right to know" about them ?

Because he is the VP and not just another occupation like astronaut


When the President of the USA entity nearly died upon eating a pretzel,
or when he barfed at a state dinner, this was made public and there were
no "privacy" issues about it.


Not the same thing

NASA is the one that chooses to make a shuttle mission highly public. So
when a crewmember is incommodated to the point of causing a schedule
change (which NASA announces), then people want to know why.

so what

Because space sickness can inflict anyone is what appears to be random
pattern, and because future space travellers may be impacted by this, it
would be of general interest for NASA or astronauts to describe exactly
what happens, how it goes away (gradually or very fast) etc etc.


They do take interest in it. It is not ignored and the data is
corrected

Since NASA is there to study how humans behave in space, keeping the
space sickness experiences so private is a bit silly. They discuss loss
of calcium in bones etc, but not space sickness.

The only part kept private, is who is affect. The data on the number
astronauts affected and how is publically available

also, since you are not a US citizen, none of your business what we do

.

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