NASA is prematurely ending a mission aboard the International Space Station, bringing a four-person crew back to Earth due to an undisclosed medical issue with an astronaut.
In a rare and unprecedented move, NASA is cutting short a mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after an astronaut experienced an undisclosed medical issue. The four-person U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew, which includes NASA's Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan's Kimiya Yui, and Russia's Oleg Platonov, will return to Earth in the coming days, much earlier than their planned six-month stay. The space agency canceled the year's first spacewalk, intended for solar panel preparations, due to the health concern. While the specific medical issue and the astronaut's identity have not been disclosed for privacy reasons, NASA confirmed the crew member is now stable. Officials emphasized it was not an onboard emergency, but a precautionary measure, marking NASA's first medical evacuation from the ISS. Three other astronauts remain aboard the space station.
