Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuation

Federaţia Rusă

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International Space Station . “It’s so good to be home,” said NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, the capsule commander. It was an unexpected finish to a mission that