{"id":411024,"date":"2026-01-15T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411024\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:54:07","slug":"astronauts-return-to-earth-after-medical-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/411024\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts return to Earth after medical evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Four astronauts who left the International Space Station (ISS) a month early due to one of the crew members falling ill have returned to Earth on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Crew 11 disembarked the Dragon Endeavour at about 01:30 local time (09:30 GMT) after an 11 hour journey back to Earth, splashing down off the coast of California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The astronauts, Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japan&#8217;s Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, arrived on the ISS on 1 August expecting to complete a standard six and a half month stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Nasa did not disclose details of the illness due to privacy reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Read more on this story <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c205r8n0276o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four astronauts who left the International Space Station (ISS) a month early due to one of the crew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-411024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}