Overview
- SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour landed at 3:41 a.m. ET in the Pacific after an approximately 11-hour trip from the station.
- The returning crew comprised NASA’s Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA’s Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos’ Oleg Platonov, ending a mission launched in August about a month early.
- NASA has not identified the affected astronaut, saying the condition is stable, not an emergency, and involves microgravity effects according to chief medical officer Dr. James Polk.
- Reentry and recovery required no special accommodations, with routine medical checks at sea followed by evaluations at a hospital and later at Johnson Space Center.
- The ISS now operates with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, and NASA and SpaceX are assessing whether to advance the mid-February Crew-12 launch.