Dr Niamh Shaw says evacuation marks a first for the space station
Nasa’s Zena Cardman is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon capsule after the successful landing. Photo: Nasa/AP
The successful evacuation of four astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) is a moment of huge significance, an Irish scientist has said.
SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour craft returned the crew members – Nasa’s Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, as well as Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov – to Earth yesterday after an unspecified medical emergency.