Chris Hadfield on getting sick in space — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:06hello my name is Aya I'm in grade nine
3. 0:09and my question for you is do astronauts
4. 0:11ever get sick or ill aboard the
5. 0:17ISS Aya when we first get to space we
6. 0:19feel sick your body's really confused
7. 0:22and so you know you're dizzy your your
8. 0:25lunch is floating around in your belly
9. 0:27cuz you're floating and and you're what
10. 0:30you see doesn't match what you feel so
11. 0:32you want to throw up so how do you throw
12. 0:34up if you get sick in space Oh the sun's
13. 0:37starting to come up um so here's an
14. 0:40astronaut barf bag right here so let's
15. 0:43say you're about to throw up in space
16. 0:44quick you get your barf bag
17. 0:47open and now think about what happens on
18. 0:50earth when you throw
19. 0:52up now that'll be okay you uh you throw
20. 0:55up and you have a bag of something
21. 0:57horrible and then you throw it away but
22. 0:59in Sp
23. 1:00if I throw up in this bag what am I
24. 1:02going to do with it this bag has to stay
25. 1:04with me in space for months so we want a
26. 1:07really good barf bag so we have one that
27. 1:10uh that will really protect us and this
28. 1:12one has a
29. 1:14uh has a liner in it so that when you
30. 1:17throw up into it so that when you throw
31. 1:19up into it you
32. 1:22can clean your face off and then you can
33. 1:25push everything inside and then it comes
34. 1:27with its own zip lock to clean put
35. 1:29inside the zip block and then you can
36. 1:30throw it down into the wet trash so yes
37. 1:32astronauts do occasionally get sick in
38. 1:34space but um we have special uh barf
39. 1:38bags to deal with it I'm just going to
40. 1:40close the shutter because it gets a
41. 1:41little bright behind me next question