NASA leaders said the Crew-11 mission's astronaut medical evacuation shows how the agency is prepared to handle the unexpected.
The four astronauts of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission undocked from the International Space Station at 5:20 p.m. EST on Wednesday.
A Crew-11 member, who NASA has yet to identify, had an undisclosed medical concern that triggered the agency to accelerate their return to Earth.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5:05 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission.
Crew-11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego early Thursday. The crew, which includes two American astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut, were brought home ...
Two American astronauts and others from Japan and Russia landed in the Pacific Ocean after an early journey home from the International Space Station because one of them was ill.