NASA will evacuate SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts from International Space Station on Jan. 14

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/nasa-will-evacuate-spacex-crew-11-astronauts-from-international-space-station-on-jan-14

6 Comments

  1. With Crew-12 supposed to go up in mid-Feb I wonder how this is going to square with both a month of understaffed USOS and Artemis II.

  2. Why the mystery?

    “*This is not an operational issue. This was not an injury that occurred in the pursuit of operations,” Polk said. “It’s mostly having a medical issue in the difficult areas of* [*microgravity*](https://www.space.com/23017-weightlessness.html)*, and with the suite of hardware that we have at our avail to complete a diagnosis.”*

  3. Is that the earliest they could do it? Not criticizing, just asking. That would feel like an eternity if there was severe pain involved. What if emergency surgery was needed sooner?