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Akiyama was not a trained astronaut, scientist nor engineer. During his time aboard Mir, Akiyama gave live reports each day documenting life aboard the station, but his apparent discomfort led to him being described as the first "antihero in space". He described his struggles such as space sickness and craving for cigarettes:During training, he quit smoking cigarettes, having previously smoked four packs a day. Before liftoff, when asked what he looked forward to most upon his return to Earth, he said "I can't wait to have a smoke". His fellow cosmonauts later reported, in regards to his nausea, that they "hadn't ever seen a man vomit that much."
Why has nobody made an anime about this guy???
Or any other type of show, you know how funny this could be. Just imagine tuning in to your weekly twenty minutes of vomiting-japanese-space-journalist with his very laconic Russian crew mates who roast him the entire time. The entire production is in Russian and Japanese, available with subtitles in Russian, Japanese and English, and it's closer to a sitcom than anything else.
Edit: And with a lot of USA roasting, naturally.
Let me honest if it was made by a known studio with a decent budget it would be the americans sending him into space and the soviets would be the bad guys
I've seen way more sympathetic presentations of Russians in anime than in western media.
With a bunch of flashback to him back on earth chain smoking and drinking. And actually enjoying life not being miserable. Then cut back to him vomiting in zero-g.
I’m guessing a lot of that was withdrawals more than the space itself. 🤷
Space sickness is nasty, but I'm pretty sure he'd be puking bc of the withdrawl as well as the space sickness
But was there a cosmonaut taking distance, velocity, and mass measurements to see if the human diaphragm produces enough force while projectile vomiting to propel a human being in zero gravity?