The NASA meet for the first time in history The International Space Station (ISS) – permanently inhabited since 2000 – is a necessity bring back the mission earlier because of illness of one of the cosmonauts in an orbital laboratory.
currently, seven crew are on board the station, four of them belong to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission, one of them is sick, but “stable”.
this thursday Jared Isaacman, NASA Acting Administrator, announced the decision to warn the return of the crew of crew-11, and an unusual measure in the history of the orbital complex.
NASA stressed that it will detail the final plans in the next few hours return of this crew without identifying the patient for privacy reasons.
Physically prepared for space
Crew 11, consisting of NASA’s Zena Cardman and Mike Finke; Kimiya Yui from the Japanese space agency JAXA and Oleg Platonov from the Russian space agency Raskosmos flew from the Kennedy Space Center (Florida) in beginning of last August and planned to return to Earth in early 2026. after completing a six-month mission.
Like all the crew members who were on board the ISS, four members of the crew-11 They have undergone years of physical, technical and psychological training, designed to prepare them for extreme space requirements, isolation and medical emergencies.It is very rarely does illness force the entire mission to be cut shortexperts believe.
The astronaut’s illness was also the reason for the cancellation the first spacewalk of the year, which was scheduled for Thursday.
The first case in the history of the ISS
Although the station has medical equipment, it does not have the necessary capacity to perform complex diagnostics. “We have a robust set of medical equipment on board the station, but it is no substitute for the equipment we have on the ground.” said Dr. James Polk, NASA’s chief medical officer.
This is the first time that a continuously operating ISS mission will return earlier due to medical indications.
Before the existence of the International Space Station, in In 1985, the Soviet mission was canceled after the serious illness of its commander Uladzimir Vasyutin, who suffered a acute prostatitis causing the crew’s return to Earth to be delayed by approximately two months.
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