En route to Mars, astronauts may face big health risks
Frank Borman was probably the first person to barf in space.
Borman was part of NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, which lifted off a launch pad in Florida on December 21, 1968. Over the next six days, the mission made history as it circled the moon and returned home. But Borman, who led the mission, became queasy near the beginning.
“I threw up a couple of times,” he recalled in an interview in 1999. Now 89, Borman is the oldest living U.S. astronaut.
“Nobody likes to throw up,” he said. Still, he insisted, this space sickness “wasn’t a big deal.”
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