NASA astronaut released from hospital after return from space station

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A NASA astronaut who was hospitalized upon instrumentality from the International Space Station for an unspecified aesculapian information was released Saturday successful "good health," the U.S. abstraction bureau said.

The four-member Crew-8 ngo splashed down disconnected the seashore of Florida aboriginal Friday aft astir 8 months aboard the orbital laboratory.

NASA did not uncover which of the astronauts was hospitalized nor the reason, citing aesculapian privacy.

However, it said successful a blog station that the unit subordinate has returned to the Johnson Space Center successful Houston "in bully wellness and volition resume mean post-flight reconditioning with different unit members."

On its mode backmost to Earth, the SpaceX Dragon executed a mean re-entry and splashdown, and betterment of the unit and spacecraft was without incident, NASA said.

But during regular aesculapian assessments connected the betterment ship, an "additional valuation of the unit members was requested retired of an abundance of caution," it added, without elaborating.

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin were each flown to Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola.

Three were subsequently released, portion 1 remained astatine the infirmary "under reflection arsenic a precautionary measure."