NASA has been forced to deny that there was an emergency situation on board the International Space Station (ISS) after a livestream of the agency went viral.
The video showed one of the crew members going through extreme distress abroad during a medical drill.
The agency said there was nothing to worry as the crewmembers were training for different hypothetical scenarios abroad.
What Happened?
At 5.30pm CDT (10.30pm GMT) on Wednesday, footage from NASA’s ISS live stream was replaced with a message that the feed had been “temporarily interrupted” and that the video would return when the “connection is reestablished”.
Soon after, a person that appeared to be communicating with crew on board the ISS began to issue advice related to a serious emergency involving a “commander” who was experiencing decompression sickness.
NASA’s ISS account posted on X that the “audio was inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation where crew members and ground teams train for various scenarios in space.”
