Medical issue leads to early return of Crew-11
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2026, 5:18 PM ET (2218 GMT)
For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA is ending a crewed mission early because of a medical issue. NASA announced Thursday that the four members of Crew-11 will return to Earth in the “coming days” on their Crew Dragon spacecraft after one of them suffered an unspecified medical issue Wednesday. NASA did not disclose who suffered the issue or other details, but said the person was stable and that the issue was not serious enough to require an immediate emergency evacuation from the station. They added that the medical issue was not related to preparations for a spacewalk that was scheduled for Thursday but called off by the incident. NASA is looking to potentially moving up the Crew-12 mission, currently planned to launch as soon as mid-February. However, the agency expects that for at least a few weeks the ISS will be operated by a three-person crew, including one NASA astronaut, who arrived at the station in November on a Soyuz.
For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA is ending a crewed mission early because of a medical issue. NASA announced Thursday that the four members of Crew-11 will return to Earth in the “coming days” on their Crew Dragon spacecraft after one of them suffered an unspecified medical issue Wednesday. NASA did not disclose who suffered the issue or other details, but said the person was stable and that the issue was not serious enough to require an immediate emergency evacuation from the station. They added that the medical issue was not related to preparations for a spacewalk that was scheduled for Thursday but called off by the incident. NASA is looking to potentially moving up the Crew-12 mission, currently planned to launch as soon as mid-February. However, the agency expects that for at least a few weeks the ISS will be operated by a three-person crew, including one NASA astronaut, who arrived at the station in November on a Soyuz.| <<previous article | next article>> |
|
news in brief
|
|
|
|
news links
|
|
Monday, February 9
Globe Telecom Seals Agreement with Starlink to Launch First Southeast Asia Direct?to?Cell Satellite Service
PR Newswire — 7:17 am ET (1217 GMT) Is Starlink still the un-jammable panacea many had thought?
Resilience Media — 7:16 am ET (1216 GMT) Sky is not the limit, India must guard the final frontier
The New Indian Express — 7:14 am ET (1214 GMT) Elon Musk said we'd reach Mars in 2026. Now, he says SpaceX is building a city on the moon.
Business Insider — 7:11 am ET (1211 GMT) Feel the boom: More and bigger SpaceX launches are coming to Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara News-Press — 7:10 am ET (1210 GMT) |
