NASA set to bring astronaut (and the rest) of Crew-11 home early for medical reasons
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On Wednesday afternoon, a four-person astronaut crew is set to strap into a SpaceX capsule and undock from the International Space Station.
The members of NASA's Crew-11 mission are coming home about a month early because one of the crew has a health condition worrisome enough that the space agency decided the person needed to get thoroughly checked out on the ground.
NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and an astronaut from Japan named Kimiya Yui, are expected to splash down off the coast of California early Thursday morning.
This is the first medical evacuation o
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