Anousheh Ansari Blogs From Space

gevmage writes "Anousheh Ansari, founder of the X Prize and the fourth 'space tourist' to the International Space Station is going to be writing a blog during her several day visit, which began this last Wednesday. She says in the current entry that her submissions are batched and she doesn't have a live browser to read comments." From the post: "The next morning when I woke up, I was so excited I slipped out of my bag quickly and flew head down to the Descent Module and flipped around and flew right back up to the Habitation Compartment. As soon as I stopped I realized that what I did was not a good idea! I felt my internal organs doing a cha-cha inside my belly ... I stopped and tried to minimize my movements. I basically become a mummy from that point forward. I only did very small slow movements and even that would make me feel really sick ..."

Comments

Re:Training

[MichaelSmith]

They don't send scuba divers in the ocean without training.

Yes but no amount of training will save them from sea sickness on the way out. Exposure does that. She should be ok on her third or fourth flight.

Re:zero-g sports

[MichaelSmith]

Does this immediate sickness after some movement rule out the development of zero-g sports being developed? If it does, this sucks big time..

I personally find sea kayaking to be a pretty nausiating sport but I keep going back to it.