US EditionNASA to Return Astronauts Early After Medical Concern
NASA will return Crew-11 early from the ISS due to a stable medical issue with one astronaut, marking a rare precautionary mission cut short in over 40 years.
- NASA announced Thursday that it is cutting the Crew-11 mission short after a medical issue on the International Space Station, and the four-person crew will return in the coming days.
- A medical concern that emerged Wednesday afternoon prompted NASA to postpone the Jan. 8 spacewalk, and the agency spokeswoman said NASA is evaluating options including an earlier end to Crew-11's mission.
- Crew-11, which launched in August, includes NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, and the postponed U.S. spacewalk 94 was to last 6.5 hours.
- NASA also took its ISS live feeds offline and said it will provide further updates within the next 24 hours, noting that earlier return would require replacement coordination and could shift EVA 94 and EVA 95 schedules.
- Because NASA does not disclose medical details, the agency said these situations are rehearsed and noted early returns are rare as missions typically last six and eight months under the Commercial Crew Program.
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A new situation: the Nasa decided to evacuate a crew because one of the astronauts is sick. An operation that turns out to be delicate, because you don't return to Earth so easily.
Washington. NASA will advance the return of crew of the Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station (ISS) due to a medical problem with one of the astronauts, the agency reported yesterday.
Four members of an ISS crew will soon be evacuated due to a medical problem affecting an astronaut, a situation unprecedented in the history of the station La Nasa a
The reason for the early recall is the health reasons of a crew member. The start of the successors for the "Crew 11" was planned for mid-February and could now be preferred.
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