{"id":239213,"date":"2026-01-15T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239213\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:09:07","slug":"astronauts-return-to-earth-after-first-ever-medical-evacuation-from-space-station-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/239213\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts return to Earth after first ever medical evacuation from space station &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut says leaving International Space Station is &#8216;bittersweet&#8217;published at 08:40 GMT<\/p>\n<p>08:40 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four astronauts who make up Crew 11, Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japan&#8217;s Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, arrived on the International Space Station on 1 August expecting to complete a standard six and a half month stay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were due to come home in mid-February &#8211; but last week, a scheduled spacewalk by Fincke and Cardman was called off at the last minute. Hours later, Nasa revealed a crew member had become ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s bittersweet,&#8221; said Fincke when he handed over the keys to the ISS to Kud-Sverchjov on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a social media post, he stressed that all crew members on board were &#8220;stable, safe, and well cared for&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Control of the ISS has been handed over to Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and two other crew members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronaut says leaving International Space Station is &#8216;bittersweet&#8217;published at 08:40 GMT 08:40 GMT The four astronauts who make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-239213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239213","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=239213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}