15 January 2026 year from the International Space Station (ISS) NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fink are back, who were respectively the commander and pilot of Crew-11, as well as mission specialists Kimiya Yui from the Japanese space agency JAXA and Oleg Platonov from Roscosmos. The team performed tasks at the station for five and a half months, however, she was forced to return more than a month earlier than planned due to a medical problem with one of the astronauts.
The agency still does not disclose information about who exactly has a health problem, citing medical confidentiality. Photos and videos from the station, including a transfer of command ceremony 12 January , did not show any signs of medical problems in the crew. NASA emphasizes, that the patient's condition is currently stable. Upon return, the four astronauts exited Crew Dragon in normal mode. The astronauts were transported by helicopter to a hospital in San Diego for additional medical examinations, including an overnight stay is a deviation from the standard procedure after abortion. 16 In January, they left for Houston after completing the inspections.
After Crew-11 returned to Earth, three people remained on the ISS: NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev. Four new representatives from NASA, ESA and Roscosmos are scheduled to launch Crew-12 in mid-February, but the agency said, which is studying the possibility of accelerating the launch of the next mission.
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