Overview
- The four Crew-11 astronauts will depart the station in the coming days after a medical issue affected one crewmate.
- Officials say the unidentified astronaut is stable and the operation is not an emergency.
- NASA’s Amit Kshatriya called it the first controlled medical evacuation conducted from the ISS.
- A spacewalk scheduled for Jan. 8 by Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke was postponed because of the health concern.
- The agency said the next U.S. launch to the station could be moved up to keep operations on track, with details still to come.