Fincke, Cardman, Yui and Platonov had been living and working aboard the International Space Station since early August and were originally expected to stay at the orbiting outpost until late February.<\/p>\n
Instead, top NASA officials and the agency\u2019s chief health and medical officer opted to bring the astronauts back to Earth a week after the incident occurred. <\/p>\n
\u201cAfter further evaluation, NASA determined the safest course was an early return for Crew-11 \u2014 not an emergency, but a carefully coordinated plan to be able to take advantage of advanced medical imaging not available on the space station,\u201d Fincke said in the statement.<\/p>\n
The four Crew-11 astronauts departed the space station on Jan. 14<\/a>, undocking from the ISS in the same SpaceX Dragon capsule that flew them to the space station. After a nearly 11-hour journey, the capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean<\/a>, off the coast of San Diego, in the early morning hours of Jan. 15.<\/p>\n In a post-landing news briefing, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said it was a \u201cserious situation\u201d in orbit, but added that the crew member in question had been safe and stable ever since.<\/p>\n In his statement, Fincke thanked his Crew-11 colleagues, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, who were also aboard the space station at the time and are still in space. Fincke also thanked the teams at NASA, SpaceX and the medical professionals at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir professionalism and dedication ensured a positive outcome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Fincke ended his statement by saying he is \u201cdoing very well\u201d and still actively involved with standard post-flight reconditioning at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston. <\/p>\n \u201cSpaceflight is an incredible privilege, and sometimes it reminds us just how human we are,\u201d he said. \u201cThank you for all your support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fincke, Cardman, Yui and Platonov had been living and working aboard the International Space Station since early August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-788725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116133078202064559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}