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NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station
“The matter involved a single crew member who is stable,” NASA said in a statement.
TL;DR
- A medical situation on the International Space Station has prompted the postponement of a scheduled spacewalk.
- NASA is considering an early return for four members of the Crew-11 mission, who launched on a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
- The affected crew member is stable, but their condition is serious enough to warrant evaluating an early mission end.
- If the mission ends early, the SpaceX Crew Dragon will return all four crew members to Earth.
- This would leave three other crew members on the ISS, who arrived on a Russian Soyuz vehicle.
- A previously scheduled spacewalk was postponed due to a medical concern.
- NASA has never performed a medical evacuation from space but has contingency plans.