CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA astronaut was once taken to the health center for an undisclosed scientific factor after getting back from a just about eight-month house station keep prolonged by means of Boeing’s pill bother and Typhoon Milton, the gap company stated Friday.
A SpaceX pill wearing 3 American citizens and one Russian parachuted prior to morning time into the Gulf of Mexico simply off the Florida coast after undocking from the World Area Station mid-week. The pill was once hoisted onto the restoration send the place the 4 astronauts had regimen scientific tests.
Quickly after splashdown, a NASA astronaut had a “scientific factor” and the staff was once flown to a health center in Pensacola, Florida, for extra analysis “out of an abundance of warning” the gap company stated in a commentary.
The astronaut, who was once no longer recognized, was once in strong situation and remained on the health center as a “precautionary measure,” NASA stated.
The gap company stated it could no longer proportion information about the astronaut’s situation, bringing up affected person privateness.
The opposite 3 astronauts have been discharged and returned to NASA’s Johnson Area Heart in Houston.
It will probably take days or weeks for astronauts to readjust to gravity after residing in weightlessness for a number of months.
The astronauts will have to were again two months in the past. However their homecoming was once stalled by means of issues of Boeing’s new Starliner astronaut pill, which got here again empty in September as a result of protection considerations. Then Typhoon Milton interfered, adopted by means of some other two weeks of prime wind and tough seas.
SpaceX introduced the 4 — NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin — in March. Barratt, the one house veteran going into the undertaking, stated the toughen groups again house that had “to replan, retool and more or less redo the whole lot proper in conjunction with us … and helped us to roll with all the ones punches.”
Their replacements are the 2 Starliner take a look at pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose personal undertaking went from 8 days to 8 months, and two astronauts introduced by means of SpaceX 4 weeks in the past. The ones 4 will stay up there till February.
The gap station is now again to its commonplace staff dimension of 7 — 4 American citizens and 3 Russians — after months of overflow.
