NASA astronaut stays within the hospital after getting back from an prolonged keep in area

A NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical subject after getting back from an almost eight-month area station keep prolonged by Boeing’s capsule bother and Hurricane Milton, the area company stated 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 Area 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 subject” and the crew was flown to a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, for extra analysis “out of an abundance of warning” the area company stated in an announcement.

The astronaut, who was not recognized, was in steady situation and remained on the hospital as a “precautionary measure,” NASA stated.

The area company stated it might not share particulars in regards to the astronaut’s situation, citing affected person privateness.

The opposite three astronauts had been discharged and returned to NASA’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston.

It may take days and even weeks for astronauts to readjust to gravity after residing 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 help groups again house that had “to replan, retool and type of redo every thing proper together with us … and helped us to roll with all these punches.”

Their replacements are the 2 Starliner take a look at 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.