The Saga of NASA's Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger

"Thanks to their quick response and the guidance of our NASA flight surgeons, my status quickly stabilized. I am deeply grateful to my fellow Expedition 74 members... as well as the entire NASA team, SpaceX, and the medical professionals at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla near San Diego."

"Fincke has voluntarily stepped forward, announcing in a NASA statement that it was he who had experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my incredible crewmates. The Crew-11 mission, which launched in August, was his fourth trip to space."

In January, NASA announced an unexpected spacewalk delay due to a medical situation involving a crew member. Two days later, the agency declared the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station in its 25 years of continuous human occupation. The Crew-11 mission members, including NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, safely returned to Earth on January 15. Seven weeks later, Fincke revealed he experienced the medical event requiring immediate attention from crewmates. With guidance from NASA flight surgeons, his condition stabilized. The specific medical condition remains undisclosed, though NASA coordinated advanced medical imaging unavailable on the station.

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