Greg Spry's Blog - Posts Tagged "covid-19"

Astronaut Exercises Rights, Refuses to Wear Spacesuit

International Space Station — On July 27, 2020, NASA mission control asked astronaut Major Karen Mumpsimus to perform a spacewalk to repair the one of the International Space Station's solar panels. However, the astronaut refused to wear a spacesuit during her excursion outside the station based on the grounds that doing so violated her constitutional rights as a United States citizen.

"No one is going to tell me what I should or shouldn't wear," Major Mumpsimus said at the time. "I can't breathe with a helmet on or through any sort of face covering. I have a medical condition."

Doctor Voisoff Rezonski, a cosmonaut and fellow station occupant, rebuked the claim that people with asthma and other chronic pulmonary diseases would breathe easier in space without wearing a suit. "As a matter of fact," the doctor said, citing multiple studies and scholarly articles as evidence, "those afflicted by these conditions are more likely to survive in space with a suit as opposed to without."

Continue reading the rest of the article

Science Fiction Author Greg Spry

Happy New Year 2021! I've completed the first draft of Beyond Existence, the fourth and final book of the Beyond Saga. Read the full blog post with all the details here.

Happy reading,
Science Fiction Author Greg Spry