Nasa astronaut distress message broadcast in error

Nasa has confirmed audio shared wide connected societal media of astronauts successful distress was a simulation broadcast connected its YouTube transmission successful error.

In the clip, intended to beryllium utilized for grooming purposes, a dependable said an astronaut connected the International Space Station (ISS) had a "tenuous" accidental of survival.

The broadcast of the clip connected Wednesday evening sparked speculation online astir a imaginable exigency successful abstraction - but Nasa said each members of the ISS are safe.

"This audio was inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation wherever unit members and crushed teams bid for assorted scenarios successful abstraction and is not related to a existent emergency," it said connected the ISS X page.

Private steadfast SpaceX also posted connected societal media to accidental determination was nary exigency aboard the ISS.

The incident, which occurred astatine 23:28 BST, led immoderate radical to judge that a existent astronaut was suffering from decompression sickness successful space.

It was made each the much believable because, dissimilar fake audio which usually appears archetypal from spurious sources, this was broadcast connected an authoritative Nasa channel.

In the audio being shared connected societal media, a idiosyncratic asks the ISS unit to assistance get an astronaut into his spacesuit, to cheque his pulse, and to supply him with oxygen.

Though Nasa confirmed the audio was shared successful error, it did not independently verify the recordings being shared online were the aforesaid that it broadcast.

Decompression sickness, besides known arsenic "the bends", is simply a occupation typically associated with scuba diving, which bubbles signifier wrong the assemblage owed to a alteration successful outer pressure.

Astronauts travel protocols to region nitrogen from the assemblage to forestall this from happening successful space.

According to Nasa, its unit members aboard the ISS were dormant astatine the clip the audio was broadcast, successful mentation of a spacewalk astatine 1300 BST connected Thursday.

It says this volition inactive spell up arsenic primitively planned.