18 hours ago - Artemis II starting to feel 'very ... the ISS: Russian cosmonauts Sergei Mikaev and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Chris Williams....

19 hours ago - An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.

8 hours ago - Nasa confirmed that the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the US astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, the Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov splashed down off the coast of San Diego at 12.41am local time ...

18 hours ago - The NASA astronauts forced to cut short their mission at the International Space Station because of a medical evacuation are returning home on Thursday.

19 hours ago - Four astronauts have safely returned to Earth after NASA made the rare decision to end their space station mission early because of a medical concern involving one of the crew members.

19 hours ago - Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down early Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, ending a weeklong effort to get an unnamed crew member home to evaluate a medical issue.

1 day ago - (AP) — An astronaut in need of ... evacuation. The four returning astronauts — from the U.S., Russia and Japan — are aiming for an early Thursday morning splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego with SpaceX....

2 days ago - On Jan. 8, NASA announced its decision to return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to Earth from the space station earlier than originally planned as teams monitor a medical concern with a crew member currently living and working aboard ...

18 hours ago - NASA made the decision to cut the mission short and return all four Crew-11 astronauts to Earth after one of them experienced what the space agency called a "medical concern." Citing privacy, NASA did not specify the nature of the medical issue, ...

17 hours ago - Four astronauts returned to Earth early Thursday morning after leaving the International Space Station a month early because of a medical issue. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 safely splashed down off the coast of San Diego after just over five months ...

1 day ago - Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, ... having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026....

19 hours ago - Then, the recovery ship hoisted the capsule onto the main deck with the four astronauts still inside, and the crew was able to exit the spacecraft. ... "All crew members are currently undergoing the routine post-splashdown medical evaluation," Isaacman said. The crew member of concern is doing fine. We will share updates on their health as soon as it's appropriate to do so." NASA said this will be followed by a planned overnight hospital stay. The crew members will then return to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will reunite with their families and undergo standard postflight reconditioning after their return from space.

18 hours ago - READ MORE: NASA cuts space station mission short after an astronaut's medical issue · SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station. Their first stop was a hospital for an overnight stay. "Obviously, we took this action (early return) because it was a serious medical condition," NASA's new administrator Jared Isaacman said following splashdown.

1 day ago - Once secured on the seafaring ship, the astronauts were able to exit the Dragon. As is standard protocol, all four crew members were due to be transported to a San Diego hospital, where they will be medically evaluated and stay overnight. Next, the crew will return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to reunite with families and undergo "standard post-flight reconditioning and evaluations," according to NASA.

1 day ago - Astronauts, Oleg Platonov, Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman and Kimiya Yui inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship shortly after landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., January 15, 2026.