Do astronaughts face problems with decompression like divers do?
Astronauts/cosmonauts CAN indeed suffer decompression sickness if they undergo significant pressure changes in their environment. DCS (the bends) aren’t caused by pressure so much as a differential in pressure between what they experienced when their blood nitrogen level was established and a lower pressure experienced if, say their spacecraft were holed by a meteoroid. Of course, if their craft were to be so holed, they’d have more important things to worry about than the bends . . .
