Astronaut returns from space with mystery medical condition

A NASA astronaut was flown to a infirmary aft returning to Earth with what the US abstraction bureau described arsenic an unspecified aesculapian condition.

Three NASA astronauts and a 4th from the Russian abstraction bureau spent astir 8 months astatine the International Space Station aft their homecoming had been stalled by problems with the Starliner capsule.

The unit splashed down disconnected Florida’s seashore astatine 7.29am connected Friday aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.

The astronaut, who NASA did not sanction for privateness reasons, is understood to beryllium suffering from a aesculapian issue, but the bureau did not disclose what it is arsenic of yet.

NASA initially said the full unit was flown to Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola infirmary retired of precaution, but did not specify whether each oregon immoderate of them had been experiencing issues.

The different 3 unit members person near the infirmary and returned to Houston, the abstraction bureau said.

SpaceX launched the 4 unit – Nasa’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin – successful March.

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