NASA astronaut remains in the hospital after returning from an extended stay in space

A NASA astronaut was taken to nan infirmary for an undisclosed aesculapian rumor after returning from a astir eight-month abstraction position stay extended by Boeing’s capsule problem and Hurricane Milton, nan abstraction agency said Friday.

A SpaceX capsule carrying 3 Americans and 1 Russian parachuted earlier dawn into nan Gulf of Mexico conscionable disconnected nan Florida seashore aft undocking from nan International Space Station mid-week.

The capsule was hoisted onto nan betterment vessel wherever nan 4 astronauts had regular aesculapian checks.

Soon aft splashdown, a NASA astronaut had a “medical issue” and nan unit was flown to a infirmary successful Pensacola, Florida, for further information “out of an abundance of caution” nan abstraction agency said successful a statement.

The astronaut, who was not identified, was successful unchangeable information and remained astatine nan infirmary arsenic a “precautionary measure,” NASA said.

The abstraction agency said it would not stock specifications astir nan astronaut’s condition, citing diligent privacy.

The different 3 astronauts were discharged and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center successful Houston.

It tin return days aliases moreover weeks for astronauts to readjust to gravity aft surviving successful weightlessness for respective months.

The astronauts should person been backmost 2 months ago. But their homecoming was stalled by problems pinch Boeing’s caller Starliner astronaut capsule, which came backmost quiet successful September because of information concerns. Then Hurricane Milton interfered, followed by different 2 weeks of precocious upwind and unsmooth seas.

SpaceX launched nan 4 — NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin — successful March. Barratt, nan only abstraction seasoned going into nan mission, acknowledged nan support teams backmost location that had “to replan, retool and benignant of redo everything correct on pinch america … and helped america to rotation pinch each those punches.”

Their replacements are nan 2 Starliner trial pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose ain ngo went from 8 days to 8 months, and 2 astronauts launched by SpaceX 4 weeks ago. Those 4 will stay up location until February.

The abstraction position is now backmost to its normal unit size of 7 — 4 Americans and 3 Russians — aft months of overflow.