NASA gave the go for the SpaceX Crew-11 mission to depart the International Space Station on Wednesday headed for an overnight splashdown back on Earth in the Pacific Ocean.

Fincke, Cardman, Yui and Platonov launched toward the ISS on Aug. 1, 2025, kicking off SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the orbiting lab for NASA. Ordinarily, such crew-rotation flights last about six months, ending a few days after their successors arrive at the ISS. But something out of the ordinary happened during Crew-11's home stretch.

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NASA said the four crew members returned to Earth early Thursday after one of them experienced a medical situation on the International Space Station.

Crew-11 is scheduled to depart the orbiting lab on Wednesday (Jan. 14) at 5:05 p.m. EST (2205 GMT). On Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 14), SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will perform the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS).

(FOX 5/KUSI) — The four astronauts who departed the International Space Station as part of NASA’s first medical evacuation splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego after midnight on Thursday. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying Crew-11 landed safely on Earth just after 12:40 a.m.

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