paulhbell07 - 22/9/2006 4:03 PMIt shows that spaceflight is not easy. Hope she is ok. This only after 1.5 weeks, just think about a 6 month trip to mars. I know it's lower gravity then earth, but it will be hard to adjust from zero 'g' to mars 'g'.
dbhyslop - 22/9/2006 11:34 PMQuotepaulhbell07 - 22/9/2006 4:03 PMIt shows that spaceflight is not easy. Hope she is ok. This only after 1.5 weeks, just think about a 6 month trip to mars. I know it's lower gravity then earth, but it will be hard to adjust from zero 'g' to mars 'g'.I imagine the crew to Mars will spend time each day exercising to mitigate this.
Gary - 22/9/2006 6:46 PMSTS-115 scheduled two hours exercise per day for EACH crew member.Doesn't matter though - as this shows, getting used to 1G is quite a task.
OV-106 - 22/9/2006 11:58 PMThis happens fairly frequently and is always different for every astronaut. Some never experience any problem and once back on Earth, it's like they never left. As someone else mentioned, that is why they have the crew transport vehicle (the bus-looking thing that hydraulically lifts up and "docks" to the orbiter). There have been several instances of someone from the crew getting sick in the ship or the transport. It happens.