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Nasa astronaut distress message broadcast in error

Space agency says the clip was from a training exercise which was accidentally put on YouTube,

"This audio was inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation where crew members and ground teams train for various scenarios in space and is not related to a real emergency," it said on the ISS X page. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.The incident, which occurred at 23:28 BST, led some people to believe that a real astronaut was suffering from decompression sickness in space. Decompression sickness, also known as "the bends", is a problem typically associated with scuba diving, which bubbles form inside the body due to a change in external pressure.

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