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[i]Physicians later theorized that Brand´s fainting may not have been related to the gas.Instead it may have been caused by temporary low blood pressure — called orthostatic hypotension — which many astronauts have experienced, though less seriously. It comes from the sudden change from weightlessness in space to exposure to the normal pull of the gravity of the Earth, or the force equal to several times that normal pull which is generated by deceleration during reentry.[/i]
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