{"id":135299,"date":"2026-01-15T23:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:30:19","slug":"spacecraft-returning-astronauts-from-iss-visible-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135299\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecraft returning astronauts from ISS visible in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Four astronauts returned home late Wednesday night after one of them had an undisclosed medical issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft was seen in the Bakersfield night sky around 12:30 a.m. bringing four astronauts back from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The astronauts evacuated the space station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\/national-news\/ailing-astronaut-colleagues-return-to-earth-in-first-nasa-medical-evacuation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wednesday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wednesday<\/a> due to one of them having an undisclosed medical issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The group landed in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego around 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 Four astronauts returned home late Wednesday night after one of them had an undisclosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[68637,151,153,152,328,14746,20295],"class_list":["post-135299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-astronauts","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-kget","tag-night-sky","tag-wednesday-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135299","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=135299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}