Crew-11 was recalled earlier than planned after a crew member had a medical issue warranting care on Earth, cutting short its mission by more than a month.

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.

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.

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,

The four members of NASA's Crew-11 safely splashed down off southern California on Thursday after the first ever medical evacuation from the ISS.

NASA said the four crew members returned to Earth early Thursday after one of them experienced a medical situation on the International Space Station.

NASA completed its first-ever medical evacuation from space, bringing four astronauts back to Earth early after a health issue aboard the International Space Station.