Medical emergency in space.
Once again, an emergency in space makes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) change its plans in an urgent fashion, after two astronauts were left stranded in orbit by a faulty Boeing Starliner craft.
This time, a ‘serious medical condition’ with a crew member aboard the International Space Station will make NASA bring the astronaut and the three crewmates back to Earth months earlier than planned.
This is the first emergency of its kind in the ISS’ 25-year history.
Reuters reported:
“NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told reporters on Thursday in a short-notice press conference in Washington that he and medical officials made the decision to return the astronaut, whom he did not identify, because ‘the capability to diagnose and treat this properly does not live on the International Space Station’.”
Hellbound and Down 