SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — In an unprecedented move, NASA has scrubbed its latest International Space Station mission because of a sick astronaut crew member.
The Dragon Capsule at this very minute is on its way back home, hurtling through space before landing in the Pacific Ocean off, you guessed it, San Diego.
“You can never fully anticipate everything,” said Jim Kidrick, former Navy pilot and director of the Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park.
On Jan. 8, NASA announced a shortened ISS mission due to an ill astronaut.
“Whoever it is, and we don’t know that, is stabilized to the point where they’ve gone through the undocking, as you know, and they are on the return, and they’ll be just fine,” said Kidrick.
Crew-11 includes two Americans, one astronaut from Japan and a Russian cosmonaut.
The mission was scheduled to end in mid-February, but splashdown is now expected at 12:45 a.m. Thursday.
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