{"id":228778,"date":"2026-01-09T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/228778\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:28:08","slug":"iss-crew-including-japans-kimiya-yui-to-make-early-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/228778\/","title":{"rendered":"ISS crew, including Japan&#8217;s Kimiya Yui, to make early return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Kimiya Yui and three other astronauts will return from the International Space Station earlier than scheduled due to a crew member&#8217;s medical issue, the U.S. space agency NASA has said.<\/p>\n<p>The ISS crew members are set to return to Earth aboard a U.S. Crew Dragon spaceship within a few days. The move marks the first early return from the ISS due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Yui is not the crew member dealing with a health issue, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>NASA said the condition of the astronaut with a medical issue is stable but that it decided that they should be returned to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the schedule will be announced within a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>Yui, who departed Earth last August with U.S. and Russian astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft, had been scheduled to stay on the ISS for about six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Kimiya Yui and three other astronauts will return from the International Space Station earlier than scheduled due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,3441,8010,42082,3442,141,145,4374],"class_list":["post-228778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-iss","tag-jaxa","tag-kimiya-yui","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}