{"id":134389,"date":"2026-01-15T07:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134389\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:31:08","slug":"crew-11-to-splash-down-near-san-diego-after-medical-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134389\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew-11 to splash down near San Diego after medical evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four-person crew from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>\u2018s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station are set to splash down off the coast of San Diego County early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The splashdown is scheduled for 12:41 a.m., according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station\u2019s Harmony module at 2:20 p.m. Pacific Standard Time to begin the trip back to Earth, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>NASA announced last Thursday the crew would be leaving the International Space Station earlier than originally planned due to a medical concern. The crew member was only described as stable.<\/p>\n<p>Due to medical privacy, \u201cit is not appropriate for NASA to share more details about the crew member,\u201d the agency announced.<\/p>\n<p>The crew consists of two NASA astronauts, Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage of return and related activities will stream on NASA+, Amazon Prime and the agency\u2019s YouTube channel beginning at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four-person crew from NASA\u2018s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station are set to splash down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[68637,68638,48695,68639,3098,74,76,75,18174],"class_list":["post-134389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-astronauts","tag-crew-11","tag-international-space-station","tag-medical-concern","tag-nasa","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}