CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical concern after coming back from a virtually eight-month area station keep prolonged by Boeing’s capsule hassle and Hurricane Milton, the area company mentioned Friday.
A SpaceX capsule carrying three People and one Russian parachuted earlier than daybreak into the Gulf of Mexico simply off the Florida coast after undocking from the Worldwide House Station mid-week. The capsule was hoisted onto the restoration ship the place the 4 astronauts had routine medical checks.
Quickly after splashdown, a NASA astronaut had a “medical concern” and the crew was flown to a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, for extra analysis “out of an abundance of warning” the area company mentioned in a press release.
The astronaut, who was not recognized, was in steady situation and remained on the hospital as a “precautionary measure,” NASA mentioned.
The area company mentioned it might not share particulars in regards to the astronaut’s situation, citing affected person privateness.
The opposite three astronauts have been discharged and returned to NASA’s Johnson House Middle in Houston.
It will possibly take days and even weeks for astronauts to readjust to gravity after dwelling in weightlessness for a number of months.
The astronauts ought to have been again two months in the past. However their homecoming was stalled by issues with Boeing’s new Starliner astronaut capsule, which got here again empty in September due to security considerations. Then Hurricane Milton interfered, adopted by one other two weeks of excessive wind and tough seas.
SpaceX launched the 4 — NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin — in March. Barratt, the one area veteran going into the mission, acknowledged the assist groups again residence that had “to replan, retool and sort of redo every little thing proper together with us … and helped us to roll with all these punches.”
Their replacements are the 2 Starliner check pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose personal mission went from eight days to eight months, and two astronauts launched by SpaceX 4 weeks in the past. These 4 will stay up there till February.
The area station is now again to its regular crew measurement of seven — 4 People and three Russians — after months of overflow.
___
The Related Press Well being and Science Division receives assist from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Academic Media Group. The AP is solely accountable for all content material.