NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 splash down on Earth
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Two Americans, a Japanese astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Thursday after 167 days in orbit, cutting short their stay on the International Space Station by more than a month after one of the crew members encountered an unspecified medical issue last week.
NASA says a crew member on the International Space Station is unwell. The agency canceled a planned spacewalk for Thursday and is taking the rare step of ending the Crew-11 mission early.
Live updates from SpaceX’s Wednesday afternoon Starlink 6-98 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.