US EditionNASA astronauts depart space station due to a medical issue, beginning their early trip home
Four astronauts returned early from the ISS due to a medical condition, marking NASA's first medical evacuation from the station after 167 days in orbit.
- On January 14, NASA and SpaceX began returning four Crew-11 astronauts, including Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov, from the International Space Station on a nearly 11-hour trip home.
- NASA's chief health and medical officer James Polk said the decision followed medical review after one crew member developed a stable health concern in the microgravity environment, leading to the cancellation of a January 7 spacewalk and an early return announced January 8.
- The return will include a deorbit burn and parachute landing, with the roughly 11-hour journey ending in a splashdown near San Diego at about 3:40 a.m. ET on January 15.
- Their departure leaves the ISS with a skeleton crew of three—Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev and Chris Williams—while NASA seeks to move up Crew-12's launch scheduled no earlier than Feb. 15.
- As the first ISS medical evacuation, this episode underscores gaps in on-orbit care and boosts interest in space medicine and AI diagnostic systems, NASA said.
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