Overview
- NASA says the affected Crew-11 member is stable and not being identified due to medical privacy.
- Thursday’s planned spacewalk to prep a power channel for future solar arrays was canceled following the on-orbit medical concern.
- Officials described the move as the ISS program’s first controlled medical evacuation and emphasized it is not an emergency.
- Dragon Endeavour will undock for a routine splashdown and recovery within days, while Chris Williams and Russia’s Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev maintain station operations.
- Leaders are evaluating options to accelerate the Crew-12 launch to restore normal staffing after the early return.