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space sickness

noun

Pathology.
  1. a complex of symptoms including nausea, lethargy, headache, and sweating, occurring among astronauts under conditions of weightlessness.


space sickness

noun

  1. the nausea that people can experience in the gravity-free environment of space
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of space sickness1

First recorded in 1950–55
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It even has a name, “Space Adaptation Syndrome,” or more commonly, space sickness.

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Jake Garn, on the other hand, “represents the maximum level of space sickness that anyone can ever attain, and so the mark of being totally sick and totally incompetent is one Garn. Most guys will get maybe to a tenth Garn, if that high.”

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But space sickness is a very real problem when you are up there on a mission trying to do a job.

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Except for his nineteen and three-quarter minutes of space sickness.

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Thursday June 16 2011 06:48 GMT Everyone knows what it's like to feel sick on a long car journey - well imagine what it's like for the astronaut who's got space sickness!

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