Medical emergency shortens SpaceX Crew-11 ISS stay; Endeavour heads to Pacific splashdown
TL;DR
A SpaceX Dragon Endeavour with four astronauts ended its 167-day ISS mission early due to a medical emergency among the crew; the team—Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov—are returning to Earth, with two Russian and one NASA astronaut remaining on the station to continue Expedition 74, ahead of the planned February Crew-12 launch.
- Astronauts depart International Space Station after medical emergency Al Jazeera
- 4 astronauts are en route home from ISS after medical issue forces early exit CNN
- Astronauts splash down after cutting space station mission short due to a medical issue NBC News
- Denmark's & Greenland's Foreign Ministers Hold News Conference C-SPAN
- NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-11 Return, Splashdown NASA (.gov)
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