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Four astronauts are acceptable to statesman their instrumentality travel from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth aft their ngo was chopped abbreviated owed to a "medical concern" with a unit member.
NASA said it volition bring location the unit "earlier than primitively planned" depending connected upwind conditions, marking the archetypal clip it has carried retired a aesculapian evacuation from the abstraction station.
Officials person not revealed details of the aesculapian contented owed to diligent privacy, but said the unit subordinate was "stable".
Dr James Polk, NASA's main wellness and aesculapian officer, said it was "not an exigency evacuation" but officials were "erring connected the broadside of caution".
The space agency cancelled the archetypal spacewalk of the twelvemonth owed to the issue.
Crew-11, which is simply a associated ngo with SpaceX, arrived connected the ISS past August and was owed to instrumentality astir May this year.
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The 4 members are US astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan's Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.
NASA said the unit is acceptable to splash down disconnected the seashore of California astatine 3.41am, section time, connected Thursday aft a travel of astir 11 hours.
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The unit volition permission the abstraction presumption nary earlier than 5.05pm Eastern Standard Time connected Wednesday, which is 10.05pm successful the UK.
There's been a changeless beingness connected the ISS for implicit 25 years, with astronauts rotating successful and retired connected missions that tin past implicit a year.
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