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A 'medical situation' is forcing NASA to end mission at the space station a month early

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NASA announced it would bring the four members of its Crew-11 mission back to Earth early. One of them has a medical condition. The crew, shown here at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on August 1, 2025, is (from left): Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, NASA astronaut and mission commander Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui. (AFP via Getty Images)
NASA announced it would bring the four members of its Crew-11 mission back to Earth early. One of them has a medical condition. The crew, shown here at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on August 1, 2025, is (from left): Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, NASA astronaut and mission commander Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui. (AFP via Getty Images)

This article was originally published on January 08, 2026.

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