Die NASA ordnet die erste medizinische Evakuierung einer Raumstation an, nachdem ein Astronaut erkrankt ist | Die Agentur sagt, dass die vierköpfige amerikanisch-japanisch-russische Besatzung in den kommenden Tagen früher als geplant zur Erde zurückkehren wird
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/08/nasa-spacewalk-medical-issue-astronaut
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>Nasa has ordered its first medical evacuation from the International Space Station in its 25-year history after an astronaut in the orbital laboratory fell ill with a “serious” but undisclosed issue.
>The US space agency said in a press conference that the crew of four led by the US commander Zena Cardman would return to Earth in the coming days, earlier than planned.
>Officials did not identify the astronaut or the issue, citing patient privacy. “This was a serious medical condition,” Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, said. “That is why we’re pursuing this path.”
>The decision to evacuate the team in a space capsule comes after a series of hurried Nasa statements about a medical situation that arose on Wednesday. The development later forced the agency to cancel its first spacewalk of the year.
>Isaacman said Nasa expected to provide updates in the next 48 hours on the astronauts’ undocking and atmospheric reentry timeline.
>The crew of four arrived on a SpaceX capsule in August for a stay of at least six months. Cardman is accompanied by the US astronaut Mike Fincke, Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov.
>The sick crew member was now stable but there was a “lingering risk”, said Nasa’s chief health and medical officer, Dr James Polk, adding that the issue has not been properly diagnosed.
If you’ve ever gotten sick while on vacation and felt guilty about it…I imagine its that times a billion.
Interesting, I really hope he/she makes it through reentry, going through that kind of g-load with certain medical conditions could be fatal, really rooting for him/her.
How many are onboard? Is this the end of humanities current streak of continuous presence in orbit?
Floats ill (can’t fall in space)
? Runs out the oral contraceptive pill
Still no disclosure yet about who and even the presenting symptoms. (No one wants to diagnose remotely) As the spacewalk was called off for Cardman & Fincke, the subtext is that it’s one of the two of them. Because of age, it’s more likely Fincke, but I’m wildly speculating without any other data.
Which is easier, to send medication to them and keep current mission, or having the sick person suffering through the reentry as well as canceling rest of the mission?
Crossing my fingers for the Plur1bus virus.
Man if we are going to get a space zombie virus it feels like this is the year for it.
Great, now we get a space aids pandemic
the comments section has me in tears. I wanted the tea on which one and instead I got a good shared standup. 👏🏻 in all reality hope whichever one is sick is nothing too serious but I feel like this must be something pretty serious. They’ve been gone for months and now they’re sick…
This is like the start of some horror movie where astronauts come back with a cataclysmic alien infection.
Probably something like appendicitis
Great. Let’s introduce that xenovirus to Earth.
Welp, here comes the space COVID.