"An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station. Their first stop was a hospital for an overnight stay."
""Obviously, we took this action (early return) because it was a serious medical condition," NASA's new administrator Jared Isaacman said following splashdown. "The astronaut in question is fine right now, in good spirits and going through the proper medical checks." It was an unexpected finish to a mission that began in August and left the orbiting lab with only one American and two Russians on board."
An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three crewmates, ending a mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a nighttime Pacific splashdown near San Diego less than 11 hours after undocking. The crew—Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov—were taken to a hospital for overnight care. NASA and SpaceX cited medical privacy and declined to identify the ill astronaut. Officials said the astronaut was stable in orbit but required Earth-based diagnostic testing. Entry and recovery required no special accommodations; medical personnel met the recovery ship. Plans call for advancing a replacement crew launch.
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