Crew-11 Undocks for Early Return to Earth After Astronaut Falls Ill

Overview

• NASA’s livestream showed the spacecraft departing the ISS early on Jan. 15 to bring the ill crew member home.
• The astronaut’s identity was not disclosed; NASA said the mission’s objectives were completed before departure.
• Splashdown is targeted off the California coast at 3:41 a.m. local time on Thursday.
• Remaining on the station are NASA’s Christopher Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev.
• Those three arrived on Nov. 27 aboard Soyuz MS-28, and Crew-12 is scheduled to continue the rotation in mid-February.