DIAGNOSIS; FAKE MISSION, This is not Rocket Science
Sorry, but has P1000 provided any documentation from NASA or the space sciences community, written prior to Apollo, that considered bowel movements as a major impediment to lunar exploration?
As I have become fond of saying Obviousman, this is not "rocket science", Apollo is quite literally not. And what is at issue here, applies to a class of kindergarten children every bit as much as it does to alleged "MOONWALKERS".
If there is concern for an "outbreak" of viral gastroenteritis as there would be should a single kindergarten class child become infected, or a single "astronaut", confined with 2 colleagues in an ever so tight cabin, the concerns of physicians would be generic. One need not have a "NASA evaluation" to clarify what is of concern here, and in the case of astronauts, a big big big concern. Certainly, the worry is greater for the astronauts because medical people cannot get at them directly, but that concern is similarly appreciated for the children. This is not about "space science", or specifically aerospace medicine. This is garden variety, down to earth, not so extraordinary, not rocket science stuff.
As a rule, viral gastroenteritis per se is self limited. It runs a relatively brief course and that is that. However, like the case with a kindergarten class, one simple astronaut case can turn to three cases, and things may suddenly move from garden variety to quite out of hand.
Viral gastroenteritis in a 5 year old is not such a big deal when parents can look after the child at home, but what about an astronaut in cislunar space? Would he/she be as easily looked after? Say within a command module, Apollo 8 or Apollo 11, 2 of 3 astronauts have diarrhea. If Borman were to have actually have been sick, you would have expected all 3 to have become ill given the infectivity and conditions. Now you have multiple astronauts with what on earth typically amounts to a garden variety, self limited problem. But now this problem does not necessarily seem so benign when viewed looking up from earth at sick astronauts in cislunar space. Fecal material floats in the cabin's "air" and can be inhaled. Dehydration, electrolyte problems, aseptic/viral meningitis and so forth become very significant and altogether meaningful concerns.
How about fulminant diarrea while in a space suite while doing an EVA? This is not by any means a stretch. An astronaut doesn't know when the runs will hit. Say Apollo 8 was going to be a "landing" instead of a lunar orbital journey. Say they let the 3 boys continue, and on the day of the landing, Lovell just notices a hint of symptomatology. He is a tough stud, that Lovell guy, so he tells everyone he is fine, flies the bug down, climbs out and poops like crazy inside his EVA pants, poops 'em full like a mad man, right on the lunar surface, right inside of the space suit. All this, from a "simple, usually self limited infectious enteritis". This is not far fetched, actually, very very very reasonable, if one were to believe the Borman diarrhea due to viral gastroenteritis in cislunar space story to begin with.
I hope you are getting my point. This is a garden variety, easily adressed problem when dealt with from our blue planet, but were astronauts like Borman truly afflicted, which they very well could be were cislunar travel and lunar exploration ever to be come a reality, well then, viral gastroenteritis, a real case, would be a big big big concern for physicans.
In the case of the kindergarten children, you send the sick ones home to stay until they are well, and you educate the others, their families, and you set about instituting appropriate precautions. If no one gets sick, great, though that is unlikely given the nature of these problems. If other children, the school teacher, and or parents become ill, at least you are battling appropriately and will almost for sure prevail without a major casualty given the favorable circumstances. But with astronauts, it is more difficult, and one could never be too cautious.
Of course it would be absolutely ridiculous to make the claim that bowel movements would be out of the question, that space travel was/is/and will remain off limits due to hygenic concerns. I am not asserting that by any means. What I am asserting however is that a purportedly high tech program of lunar exploration cannot hope to succeed if it ignores the fundamentals of sanitation, if it ignores the simple fundamentals of good hygiene.
We have indeed caught the Apollo boys with their pants down here. I do not like it anymore than anyone else, but are we to ignore the obvious truth?
If Apollo were genuine, there would have been a genuine program adressing these problems, those of sanitation. Evaluating how best to go about protecting astronauts and then implementing whatever proceedures deemed appropriate.
This is utterly absurd. Apollo claims to have succeeded in sending its Mission 8 crew from the earth to the moon and then around that same orb a bit, and then, bringing the trailblazers back to our home planet in December of 1968. Yet, one of Apollo 8's crew members was said to have been sick with viral gastroenteritis, his vomitus and diarrheal stools wafting through the ship's zero G cabin threatening the other 2 crew members and the entire mission. Are we to believe given this set of circumstances and the commonality of this type of problem, the pedestrian commonality of this type of infection, that they would actually send Armstrong/Collins/Aldrin up in number 11; to get nude, poop in a bag, and were one of them just a hair off the mark, or if one got sick like Borman, the cabin would wind up swarming with potentially infectious droplets, droplets commander Armstrong could easily ingest(hand to mouth) or inhale. And in so doing, the fist moonwalker would descend to the lunar surface with God only knows what virus, or Salmonella or Shigella cooking there in his belly. Why it is preposterous. It never would be allowed to occur, the genuine taking of such a risk by NASA. We may confidently conclude therefore.....
Diagnosis; fake mission.
