NASA Broadcasts Astronaut Distress Audio by Mistake

Was it really a drill?

Or is there an alien infestation on the ISS?

Reuters:

NASA accidentally broadcast a simulation of astronauts being treated for decompression sickness on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, prompting speculation of an emergency in posts on social media.

About 5:28 p.m. U.S. Central Time (2228 GMT), The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) live YouTube channel broadcast audio that indicated a crew member was experiencing the effects of decompression sickness (DCS), NASA said on its official ISS X account.

A female voice asks crew members to “get commander back in his suit”, check his pulse and provide him with oxygen, later saying his prognosis was “tenuous”, according to copies of the audio posted on social media. NASA did not verify the recordings or republish the audio.

Several space enthusiasts posted a link to the audio on X with warnings that there was a serious emergency on the ISS.

This audio was inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation where crew members and ground teams train for various scenarios in space and is not related to a real emergency,” the ISS account post said.

Here are the tapes.

I’ve watched a lot of videos saying the ISS is fake.

I tend to side with the people saying it’s real. Though the people who say it’s fake are pretty awesome dudes.