An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego,

After NASA conducted its first medical evacuation from the International Space Station, the astronauts are expected to splashdown near San Diego.

This photo provided by NASA shows clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui gathering for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module,

Four astronauts who left the International Space Station a month early due to one of the crew members falling ill have returned to Earth on Thursday.

The SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft splashed down this morning as four astronauts completed an unprecedented medical evacuation of the International Space Station (ISS).

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission splashed down safely today (Jan. 15) after the first-ever medical evacuation of the International Space Station.

Astronauts evacuated early from the International Space Station (ISS) due to a medical issue were seen for the first time back on Earth in the early hours of Thursday morning after their SpaceX Dragon craft splashed down off the Californian coast.

A crew of four astronauts landed back on Earth after departing the International Space Station on Wednesday in NASA’s first-ever medical evacuation over an undisclosed ailment involving one of the crew members.