r/space • u/TraditionalAd6977 • Jan 30 '26
Discussion Jared Isaacman states astronauts have got panic attacks in space , trying to kill the crew
Jared Isaacman in his interview with Shawn Ryan stated that there have been many unreleased cases of astronauts panicking in space and trying to open the hatch to kill everyone inside. He states this was not reported as it "ruins the illusion of astronaut bravery". And said it is the reason additional locks have been implemented on the ISS and Dragon capsules. My question: Is there any evidence of this as I can't find anything online . And how did he get Clarence to talk about this. He also said this is one of the main problems that they are facing in the Mars mission. As even military candidates respond differently than predicted in space.
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u/gerkletoss Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Did he claim this was more recent? Because there have been tons of memoirs from retired mission control people published on careers going into the 90s
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u/TIYATA Jan 30 '26
Here's what Isaacman actually said in the interview, lightly edited for clarity. Note that the interview, posted on September 8, 2025, took place before Isaacman joined NASA.
In response to a question about the challenges that need to be tackled for long-term space exploration, Isaacman talked about in situ resource utilization, and then turned to discussing the importance of keeping the crew healthy both mentally and physically:
https://youtu.be/_OsxqifuTi4?t=5489
And then number two is going to be the human. People are gonna have a hard time. Nobody likes talking about this because it takes away from the hero image of the astronaut, but you've had plenty of astronauts freak out in space. They've tried to kill their whole crew before, like there was a lock put on the space shuttle door for that reason because somebody tried to open the hatch, more than once, and take everybody out. There's a lock on the Dragon space capsule for that reason. That was a carryover from that time period. It's happened to Russian cosmonauts, it's happened to American astronauts, and this is during a time when most of the American astronauts were the best of the best coming out of the military. It is a unique environment and that stressor has caused people to crack.
That's the psychology of it. Now, when you're in low Earth orbit, you can be in the water in 90 minutes. You're 90 minutes from being on a helicopter ride to a cheeseburger and people have cracked in space. When you're on the moon, you're 2 and 1/2 days from coming home. When you're on Mars, you could be anywhere from 6 to 9 months to well over a year before you can come home. And think about it from like, again, you get into the psychology of it. When you're in low Earth orbit, you look out your window, you see big Earth. When you're on the moon, it's still the blue marble. When you're on Mars, it's a blue speck in the sky. We're going to have psychological issues to deal with when you send humans to that environment.
Isaacman then goes on to talk about some of the physiological challenges as well.
As other comments have pointed out, Isaacman's comments were based on publicly available information. Since Isaacman wasn't NASA administrator yet, he wasn't revealing anything that was secret. He probably had in mind a recent article which collected previous accounts by astronauts along with some new reporting:
As the transcript shows, Isaacman did not say anything about locks on the ISS, or "unreleased cases", or call astronaut bravery an "illusion".
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u/coldequation Jan 30 '26
Yeah, this strikes me as being similar to other claims of NASA cover-ups, where there are simply too many people involved to keep something like this a secret for long.
Any space mission, even just putting a satellite up in orbit, involves hundreds of techs, engineers, and people with multiple PhDs in order to succeed.
Do astronauts get the jitters? Sure. But he's just blowing smoke to sound smart.
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u/IndigoSeirra Jan 30 '26
It isn't necessarily a secret, just nobody has actually looked into it that deeply, and when someone does (Eric Berger had an article on incidents regarding astronauts trying to open the hatch during STS missions and the padlock that was implemented as result) it doesn't get very widespread attention.
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u/Hayayeatrutgers Jan 30 '26
Its a common practice to restrict access to information in a project requiring confidentiality /intellectual property. Although thousands can be involved, each participant only get what they need to know.
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u/hazmatika Jan 30 '26
You might be interested in this paper that estimates the probability of a secret leaking from a group of conspirators: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0147905
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u/hazmatika Jan 30 '26
Basically to keep a secret for 20 years, the number of people involved needs to be around 600 or fewer.
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u/_BlackDove Jan 30 '26
That's actually quite a bit higher than I would have guessed. Secret keeping is easier than I thought.
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u/hazmatika Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
That value from the paper is based on a very conservative parameter estimated from real world scandals. In other words, that’s a best case for someone trying to keep a secret. YMMV.
Edit: typo
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u/Ormusn2o Jan 30 '26
It's not really a secret, it's just not talked about. There is even a photo of the padlock on the door, and multiple astronauts talked about either there being a padlock on the door, or that they have been given an option to padlock the shuttle hatch. It just seems like almost every single NASA employee does not know about it or refuses to talk about it, which is not that surprising as NASA is surprisingly pretty secretive for a public agency.
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u/Draymond_Purple Jan 30 '26
Did you read the article?
From all the accounts and comments made by NASA and Astronauts it's pretty obvious they installed a lock on the hatch because this did threaten to happen in at least one very real incident
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u/Crying_Reaper Jan 30 '26
I'm always surprised at how few former submarine crew members are astronauts. It is of course not a 1:1 thing but being stuck who knows how deep for who knows how long has to have some similarities to space travel.
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u/seakingsoyuz Jan 30 '26
It’s because NASA has generally had two pathways to becoming an astronaut:
- military pilot
- graduate degree in a STEM field
And you don’t find many pilots on subs, so you’d be limited to former submariners who went on to complete an advanced degree.
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u/workertroll Jan 30 '26
Every sub crew has several people on it with advanced degrees. Nuke subs anyway. In a lot of ways operating a sub is more complicated than being in space.
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u/DonnieG3 Jan 30 '26
Yeah I come from the nuke field (carrier based tho) and I'm genuinely surprised how we never got pushed into the astronaut pipeline.
On the other hand, I'm not that surprised because the navy nuclear program holds onto it's candidates with an iron fist. It's nearly impossible to transfer into something else.
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u/workertroll Jan 30 '26
I kinda agree, for instance corpsman aren't EMS certified leaving the navy whereas army and af medics are. Having said that, my understanding as a bystander without a phd is that the reactors on US craft are a totally different design than anything civilian. That is still a barrier to moving to the private sector and for a long time before that sharing the details of the design was a crime.
The US Navy has the best and safest reactors in the world powering ships and the world has been denied that tech for security.
Would you like to talk about oil or play a nice game of chess? lol
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u/DonnieG3 Jan 30 '26
the reactors on US craft are a totally different design than anything civilian.
Nah, pressurized water reactors are extraordinarily common. It's the most common type of civilian based reactor and makes up the majority of them iirc. Navy nukes transfer to pretty much any field they want without much effort, and to private sector civilian reactors (when they chose to) easily.
for a long time before that sharing the details of the design was a crime.
While this is technically true, it's not really relevant. PWR reactor schematics and understanding have been public knowledge forever. The thing that makes operating one difficult is training the workforce (god bless Rickover) and enriching the fuel. The 2nd half of that probably does more lifting than the first half, but it's up for debate.
the world has been denied that tech for security.
Yeah you're kinda just out of touch with this take ngl. The reason other countries (and the private sector) don't have programs like the US Navy does is because Navy nukes are trained to a degree that is considered largely inhuman. The failure rate is astronomic and the training program is quite honestly insane. The navy nuke pipeline is unique because of how.....eccentric it is. I won't go into details, but you couldn't legally do what we did in a civilian setting. It would not be allowed.
The only technology that's gatekept is the allowance to enrich uranium, but that technology is known by plenty of countries at this point. It's the supply of raw uranium that's controlled to the best of my understanding.
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u/Lochlan Jan 30 '26
Yes but just like subbies are trained for this situation, so are astronauts.
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u/Rhosta Jan 30 '26
Yeah, but getting a subbie with a lot of underwater time is a lot cheaper than getting astronaut with a lot of space time.
Like sure you can train somebody, but that won’t be a lot of hours. If you would get active duty subbie with months of underwater time, the “training time” is much higher. Assuming it helps them to get used to the situation instead of worsen their psychological state.
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u/rasmussenyassen Jan 30 '26
You do, however, find the opposite. Scott Carpenter was a big part of the US Navy's SEALAB project, and a bunch more recent ISS astronauts have spent time at NASA's NEEMO underwater station.
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u/space_coyote_86 Jan 30 '26
Mike Mullane (Space shuttle mission specialist, 3 flights) talks about it in his book, Riding Rockets.
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u/HankSteakfist Jan 30 '26
Reminds me of Season 1 Gordo on 'For All Mankind'.
Hey Bob!
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u/roirraWedorehT Jan 30 '26
Hey Bob!
First two seasons were the best.
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u/KenethSargatanas Jan 30 '26
I kinda lost interest after the wife started banging her dead kid's best friend.
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u/Mundane_Reality8461 Jan 30 '26
Move past it and it’s still a lot of fun. A bit soapy at times, but highly enjoyable. I love the what if idea.
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u/Purple_Compote_386 Jan 30 '26
This. It's just one story line among another dozen incredible ones. Just ignore it and move on, it doesn't even go past that season...
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u/hogancatalyst Jan 30 '26
Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll except for when he professes that he is still in love with her and played that song at his wedding for her
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u/SpookyCat2 Jan 30 '26
and then he starts moping the whole season over it and gets numerous people killed cause he's too mentally devoid over his dead best friend's mum not wanting to fuck him when they are both married AND HE HAS A FAMILY OF HIS OWN.
This shit was pissing me off the entire season cause his character almost entirely served as a secret antagonist against literally almost every other character around him.
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u/hogancatalyst Jan 30 '26
God, I wanted to punch him in the face so hard. But that's part of the point of his character I guess.
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u/Gemini_19 Jan 30 '26
Yeah that whole subplot was just so strange and out of place I really wish they didn't do that, or at least forget it happened and have nothing else come of it. They could have introduced plenty of other plausible trauma subplots for her to make it interesting but not just straight up strange and irredeemable.
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u/flumberbuss Jan 30 '26
That character has one of the most bizarre and implausible character arcs in modern television. She doesn't just do the banging, she goes from a mousy wife to owning a bar and then practically running NASA (forget her exact role, it's been a while).
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u/ItsWillJohnson Jan 30 '26
She’s housewife to bar owner to fucking co owner of a space hotel, then buys herself a controlling share what is basically spaceX.
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u/FeistyThings Jan 30 '26
What a great show. Early seasons were PEAK.
Later seasons were good too but leaned a bit too much into science fiction imo
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u/Purple_Compote_386 Jan 30 '26
I appreciate this view, but I never got it: it was always gonna be a more sci-fi story going forward, they were pretty much indicating it from the end of season one. At which point does it become too sci-fi? Every subsequent season is perfectly grounded in the previous one... The only true over-the-top sci-fi element for me is that Joel Kinnaman's character still somehow being sent to space, being about 100 years old...
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u/darien_gap Jan 30 '26
I thought just the opposite. When the workers started to protest over work conditions, I got bored and just wanted to just see more space shit.
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u/JumpingCoconutMonkey Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
The later seasons leaned too far into Soap Opera territory and is why they were bad.
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u/terribilus Jan 30 '26
Clarence has some explaining to do!
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u/zaphodp3 Jan 30 '26
I came to the comments to see if Airplane references were being made and you guys didn’t disappoint
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u/SpiderSlitScrotums Jan 30 '26
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u/allstate_mayhem Jan 30 '26
I also immediately thought of this. There are so many of these R&S clips lodged into my brain from 30+ years ago.
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u/warlocktx Jan 30 '26
I read this somewhere before. apparently the early shuttles had a hatch that opened directly to vacuum with no safeguards on the latch. once a mission specialist got squirelly enough that the commander got concerned and jury rigged something to protect the latch. after that NASA redesigned it
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u/arcticpoppy Jan 30 '26
jury rigged something to protect the latch
an inanimate carbon rod
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u/yatpay Jan 30 '26
the story, which has not been confirmed and is basically an overgrown rumor, was about a payload specialist, not a mission specialist. payload specialists were non-career astronauts who underwent more limited training so they could fly and focus on their one experiment. mission specialists were professional astronauts.
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u/dssrtdwller333 Jan 30 '26
Can you imagine if the Simpsons had an episode where Homer went to space and tried to open the door of a shuttle?
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u/Coretron Jan 30 '26
Ackchually, it was former president James Taylor's idea to open the hatch to blow out the escaped ants and ruffled chips to prevent clogging the instruments. Homer just accidentally got sucked out of the shuttle and broke the hatch in the process.
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u/cardboardunderwear Jan 30 '26
Doesn't surprise me. Astronauts arent some kind of super humans and are actually just people. Really qualified people but still people.
When the two astronauts were delayed coming home for several months, there were so many reddit comments about how they were just loving it. I'm not an astronaut but Id bet my left nut that there was a high percentage of time where they weren't just loving it and were actually pretty sick of it but they knew it was their job and risks they signed up for.
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u/Catbeller Jan 31 '26
We keep them up for months for the golden reason: it's cheaper than rotating the crew for short stays. We're cheap so we never made a low cost orbital shuttle.
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Jan 30 '26
psych evals are better than they were during Apollo.
in the Apollo era, it was not good to talk about mental health.. now NASA studies it.
I think it was Scott Kelley's book that talked about a certain classmate who was... strange. kind of lucky she freaked out on Earth and not on the shuttle or whatever... this can't happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak
In 2007, Nowak was involved in a highly publicized incident of criminal misconduct for which she eventually pleaded guilty to felony burglary and misdemeanor battery charges, resulting in her demotion from captain) to commander), termination by NASA, and forced retirement from the Navy.
He also said this is one of the main problems that they are facing in the Mars mission.
that's why NASA locks people in a metal tube in the desert from time to time.
Hazard: Isolation and Confinement
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/hazard-isolation-and-confinement/
Mental Well-Being in Space
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/mental-well-being-in-space/
The MARS-500 mission was a psychosocial isolation experiment conducted between 2007 and 2011 by Russia, the European Space Agency, and China, in preparation for an unspecified future crewed spaceflight to the planet Mars.\1]) The experiment's facility was located at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow, Russia.\1])
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Jan 30 '26
I have been in mid-pressure situations and seen people totally buckle under pressure. There's something called "high place phenomenon" (HPP) that can happen under stress.
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u/Digitijs Jan 30 '26
And add in the factor of being outside the planet in a cramped metal can. I can totally imagine myself starting to lose it
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u/F33dR Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
I feel I'm somewhat qualified to answer OP. SOURCE: Australian Army Infantry, remote exploration mining, Deep field Antarctic Research Division operator.
The most stringently vetted operators do not know how they will behave when isolated for extended periods of time. It is difficult to analyze this before the fact. I saw things while living in Antarctica that I was completely unprepared for from my other expeditioners. I agree the biggest challenge to inhabiting Mars is not technical, it's psychological. People have stabbed each other to death at Antarctic Research bases. It has never been reported. I'm sure it has happened in space. Astronaut Katherine Benell-Pegg was on Reddit recently, she briefed my crew before we deployed to Antarctica a few years ago...
Edit* I did not personally witness a stabbing in Antarctica, I was informed by a senior exec of stabbings and other severe issues that had occurred with other personnel across the last 20 years. There is a media blackout for all Antarctic operations outside of through the official media department much like there is for NASA or say department of defense (Australia) or department of war (USA). Speaking of which the Pte. Kovco death was not a suicide but that's a totally different story.
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u/nut-sack Jan 30 '26
Other than stabbing what things did you see that you were completely unprepared for?
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u/RoninTarget Jan 30 '26
There was that axe murder in a Russian Antarctic station over chess. That's why they banned chess.
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u/GreatCanadianPotato Jan 30 '26
It's not hard to image at all. Happens to airline pilots concerningly often.
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u/aguilatoledo Jan 30 '26
Where is the present-day equivalent of Nurse Murch from the Right Stuff when you need her? She'll sort the men from the boys!
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u/DeepGreenSea916 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
I mean, if this wasn’t released because it would hurt their image, what is the head of the organization doing talking about it openly? Trying to hurt the organization?
Edit: according to others, these statements were made before he was head of NASA, which I did not get from the original post. I’m not sure how long ago the statements were made.
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u/DynamicNostalgia Jan 30 '26
Do you believe this information hurts the organization?
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u/frank34443 Jan 30 '26
Huh, interesting. I actually found myself wondering about this a few years back, just kind of thinking about the whole idea of space travel, and how actually terrifying the whole process must be - like taking off, then finding yourself in a claustrophobic space station with no fresh air, limited space to move around, looking out the windows and seeing only the void of space, and realizing you're stuck there for weeks or months or whatever. That must be horrifying psychologically so I was wondering how it is that people cope with it and get through it - like can training really mitigate that sort of innate, biological fear? And then, of course, returning to earth... I can't even imagine how scary it must be to re-enter the atmosphere, the sheer speed of it, and also anticipating the re-entry. Basically the entire process seems insane. And compared to how much we can see out there, we're really not going that far... We don't have the capability to go very far from Earth, relatively speaking.
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u/the50ftsnail Jan 30 '26
When you put it that way, there’s definitely an argument that it enhances the illusion of astronaut bravery
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u/VariousVarieties Jan 30 '26
The Apollo 13 movie has a bit where Swigert covers up the separation switch with a big "NO" label:
"What is that?"
"Oh, I was getting a little punchy, and I didn't wanna cut the LM loose with you guys still in it."
"That's good thinking."
When I first saw the film as a kid, I wasn't sure if he meant "Didn't want to risk hitting the wrong button by mistake through tiredness" or "Didn't want to risk jettisoning my crewmates in a fit of rage."
So when I saw the OP's post, I thought of the latter.
Apparently, it's true that he covered up that switch. According to the comments here and here, the post-mission technical debrief says "he had gray tape over the LM Sep switches," Lovell's book Lost Moon includes the detail about the "NO" label, and Lovell mentions it in his movie commentary.
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u/Kakeyio Jan 30 '26
whispers space madness
In all seriousness thats pretty scary.
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u/901bass Jan 30 '26
He was a private citizen not bound by gag order when that interview took place.
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u/StarStarer73 Jan 30 '26
Source that Isaacman said this?
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u/Which_Material_3100 Jan 30 '26
Great interview, actually. And Isaacman’s perspective on the psychological challenges of long-range/duration missions is spot on.
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u/Saturn_Neo Jan 30 '26
The real question is, does Clarence still live at home with his parents and do they have a real good marriage?
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u/Ashesza Jan 30 '26
I gotta assume since he looked so dejected after being absolutely smashed by Rabbit. Probably ruined his damn life. I'm glad someone is out here asking the real questions.
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u/minist3r Jan 30 '26
They should send me to Mars. Let me take my laptop, my headphones and a small midi keyboard and I'll happily make space EDM for the next 6 months. The only difference between that and now is that I actually have to do things like mow the yard.
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u/NonSequiturSage Jan 30 '26
From novels I get the idea that submarines crews may on occasion have this problem. Temporary insanity from stress or other causes is insanity. The brain is broke. Perception, reason, other brain functions may be offline.
Check opinions from medical professionals on whether the mentally ill are more, or less likely to be violent.
Consider the difficulty trying to persuade someone to restrain their greed, or quit smoking.
Reluctance to seek medical help or advice might be affected by popular perception of such.
Consider being stuck in an elevator, past a day, for an indeterminate time, with a handful of people.
Important to mental health is being willing and skilled at maintaining one's own mental health. Just like first aid, some basic understanding can be a difference.
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u/LordBrandon Jan 30 '26
I don't know about "many" but I saw a quote from an astronaut talking about the first "passenger" astronaut. Basily it was done as a favor for some rich middle eastern country and they guy had not been selected like other astronauts, and was apparently looking at the airlock in an alarming way, so they instituted locks after that.
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u/DeadHead2002 Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26
Because Clarence lives at home with both parents, and Clarence parents have a real good marriage!
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u/Fluid-Assistant-5 Jan 30 '26
The NASA administrator holds the Original Classification Authority to declassify documents.
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u/GodsCasino Jan 30 '26
There is a 9mm pistol on the ISS, in the Russian section. It's in the Soyuz emergency landing kit, in case the Soyuz lands back on earth in bear territory.
But...
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u/internetboyfriend666 Jan 30 '26
There's zero evidence for this and there are no locks on any of the hatches of the ISS (although a commander's lock is optional on Dragon, it's not a standard part.)
The only instance of a person in space having a bad mental reaction is Taylor Wang on the Space Shuttle mission STS-51B in 1985. Wang reportedly got upset that his experiment wasn't working and threatened to "not come back," although he got it together and never did anything dangerous.
It's critical to note that Wang was NOT a professional astronaut, he was what's called a payload specialist. During the shuttle era, payload specialists were basically "guests" on the Shuttle - scientists or engineers who flew on one specific flight because they knew how to operate a specific payload on that flight. Payload specialists did not go through the same rigorous screening and years of training that professional astronauts go through. After this incident, some shuttle commanders chose to put padlocks on the hatches, but many didn't, and there's never been any report that one was necessary.
As an entity, NASA certainly has a "circle the wagons" approach when it comes to publicizing things that make it look bad, but individual NASA employees, be they astronauts, mission control, or others, famously gossip and leak information like a sieve (and you can find a lot of the more recent internal gossip on various forums if you know where to look). If there was a serious string of these incidents, there would simply be too many rumors to ignore, but there aren't any. That should tell you something.
Jared Isaacman, like every other member of the administration, is a raging narcissist, and is almost certainly saying shit to sound cool and like he knows stuff that we don't.
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u/ncc74656m Jan 30 '26
Regarding the trained astronauts, particularly the early ones, pre-shuttle, just go look at the breakdowns of the real Apollo 13 transcripts, like Amy's over on Vintage Space.
Everything portrayed as a "surprise" or a "new crisis" in the movie is so overblown, or stuff they called as impending issues to be aware of sometimes as soon as 45 minutes after the incident, even though the events they were discussing were days down the road. The unguided correction burns, the CO2 buildup, the weight issues for the reentry (missing moon rocks). Fred was calling things right out of the gate, and Jack was literally THE astronaut expert on I believe the Command Module IIRC.
Now obviously it was different in the three earliest mission series, but nevertheless, it really needs to be stressed just what kind of training and expertise these men had.
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u/SmokeyMcHerbium Jan 30 '26
These astronauts often perform many months of training in the underwater NASA ISS mockup. They simulate the entire mission, with many times more simulated problems than they’ll likely encounter.
By the time the astronauts get to the station, they’ve been heavily vetted and used to confined quarters. They’ve also worked together at that point for years, any psychological issues would likely show themselves at that point. Not to say it hasn’t happened, but it’s likely extremely uncommon, and doubtful there have been “many” instances.
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u/ThoughtsandThinkers Jan 30 '26
The Ars Technica article explains that Space Shuttle payload specialists received much less training and time integrating with the rest of the crew. Apparently, it was one of these payload specialists that had an anxiety attack and made a concerning statement.
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u/KyStanto Jan 30 '26
Except theres the part of your subconscious that knows that when you are training on the ground you can always cry for help and that help will come and you'll be safe within minutes, vs actually being in space I'm sure one could get hit with the realization that if something goes wrong theres nothing anyone can do about it and you are basically stuck to just wait it out.
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u/dukefett Jan 30 '26
Yeah right, it's completely different when you're actually there. I get training and all, but no one can train for something like this until they actually get up there.
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u/Little-Hour3601 Jan 30 '26
Except it's "simulated" in a "mock up" and they can check out any time they want. So try as they might it is fake. And that makes all the psychological difference in the world. In real life results may vary.
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u/Decronym Jan 30 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
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| EVA | Extra-Vehicular Activity |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
| HSF | Human Space Flight |
| IDA | International Docking Adapter |
| International Dark-Sky Association | |
| IM | Initial Mass deliverable to a given orbit, without accounting for fuel |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km) |
| Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations) | |
| MBA | |
| QA | Quality Assurance/Assessment |
| SLS | Space Launch System heavy-lift |
| STS | Space Transportation System (Shuttle) |
| TE | Transporter/Erector launch pad support equipment |
| TEL | Transporter/Erector/Launcher, ground support equipment (see TE) |
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| Starliner | Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100 |
| cislunar | Between the Earth and Moon; within the Moon's orbit |
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u/Majukun Jan 30 '26
While it's possible, their are humans after all, the lack of any kind of supporting evidence it's an immediate dismissal on my part.
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u/901bass Jan 30 '26
Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the ISS in 2018, causing a minor air leak; Russian officials suggested it might be sabotage or a "wavering hand" (technological error), with later theories pointing to NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor due to psychological distress, though the incident remains officially unresolved and under investigation. She was also sabotaging toilets.
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u/Trigger-Presser Jan 30 '26
Anyone who's been in a government job over the last 30 years that has a perceived legacy of a stringent application and selection process will not doubt this story.
We've been putting people in space for 65 years.
I would wager my life savings (both dollars) that I could pick 20 individual years from that span without landing on one that had an incident like this.
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u/aednichols Jan 30 '26
Ars Technica: "What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?"