{"id":371290,"date":"2026-01-15T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371290\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:10:09","slug":"moment-crew-11-undocks-and-begins-early-journey-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371290\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Crew 11 undocks and begins early journey back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa&#8217;s SpaceX Crew-11 began its journey back to Earth from the ISS, after a medical emergency prompted the first such return since the orbiting laboratory launched in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, Nasa announced that a &#8220;serious medical condition&#8221; with a crew member aboard the ISS led to the decision of bringing the astronaut and three crew members back to Earth months earlier than planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa did not identify which of the Crew-11 mission&#8217;s four astronauts was experiencing the medical issue or describe its nature, citing the crew member&#8217;s privacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crew includes US astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa&#8217;s SpaceX Crew-11 began its journey back to Earth from the ISS, after a medical emergency prompted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}