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MrGronx t1_jdh4fqn wrote

Reply to comment by ClemClem510 in How does the gravity (or lack thereof) on the ISS affect digestive systems of it's occupants? by Bob_Perdunsky

The amount of nausea and accompanied actually being sick is is officially known as space adaptation syndrome , but is unofficially measured on a scale known as the Garn Scale. The units range from 0 to 1 "Garn", where 1 Garn is as sick as an astronaut could possibly get.

The name comes from Republican Senator Jake Garn, the first sitting member of congress to go to space. He flew on STS-51-D as a payload specialist and as a subject on an experiment regarding space adaptation syndrome, and he didn't disappoint: he was so ill throughout the 167 hours of his mission that, ever since, astronauts coined the Garn Scale after him!

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Tjeetje t1_jdi2c74 wrote

Not the digestive system, but I was pretty shocked when our Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers told that because of the lack of gravity you have a permanent feeling of a heavy cold with mucus flying free in your cavities.

I thought do you even feel good up there?

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ERSTF t1_jdiacn6 wrote

On the bright side he says he would do it again because it was his dream to go to space

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