{"id":499351,"date":"2026-02-25T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:24:07","slug":"nasa-iss-astronaut-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499351\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA ISS astronaut doing well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The astronaut who faced a health issue prompting the first-ever medical evacuation in International Space Station history is \u201cdoing very well,\u201d he said in a statement issued by NASA on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mike Fincke, 58, said he\u2019s \u201cdoing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning\u201d at NASA\u2019s center in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NASA had previously declined to identify which astronaut experienced the \u201cmedical event,\u201d the details of which they still did not disclose in Wednesday\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The health issue prompted NASA to cut short the mission of a quartet including Americans Fincke and Zena Cardman along with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fincke said that his Jan. 7 health mishap required \u201cimmediate attention from my incredible crewmates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThanks to their quick response and the guidance of our NASA flight surgeons, my status quickly stabilized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The early flight home was not due to emergency, he said, but rather to \u201ctake advantage of advanced medical imaging not available on the space station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crew splashed down off the California coast on Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSpaceflight is an incredible privilege, and sometimes it reminds us just how human we are,\u201d Fincke said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The astronaut who faced a health issue prompting the first-ever medical evacuation in International Space Station history is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[712,49,48,66],"class_list":["post-499351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499351","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=499351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}