US EditionNASA to Bring ISS Crew Home Early Because of an Astronaut's Health Issue, Marking the First Medical Evacuation of the Spacecraft
Crew-11’s early return marks the first medical evacuation from the ISS, with one astronaut needing ground treatment, NASA officials said the crew is stable and mission objectives met.
- In an 8 January press conference, NASA announced it is conducting the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station with Crew-11 returning early within days.
- Due to on-orbit equipment limits, the International Space Station lacks full emergency-department hardware, so NASA prefers ground evaluation of the affected astronaut, who is stable and whose condition remains private.
- The four members of Crew-11 will return together aboard the same SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that brought them up, and the return operation is not significantly different from normal crew returns.
- The early return leaves one NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on the ISS until the Crew-12 mission, originally slated around 15 February, and several Earth medical facilities are being readied for the patient.
- In 25 years of ISS operations, there has never been a medical evacuation despite models predicting an evacuation every three years, and four of seven crew members returning early shifts crew rotations and upcoming launches.
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NASA to Bring ISS Crew Home Early Because of an Astronaut's Health Issue, Marking the First Medical Evacuation of the Spacecraft
The unnamed crew member is in stable condition after an undisclosed incident on Wednesday, but the agency is bringing them back to Earth for medical testing
NASA faces for the first time the need for an early return of the International Space Station (ISS) by a sick astronaut.
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