Crew-11 Dragon Departure: First Medical Evacuation | International Space Station

Crew-11 Dragon Departure: First Medical Evacuation | International Space Station

On Jan. 8, 2026, NASA announced its decision to return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission to Earth from the International Space Station earlier than originally planned as teams monitor a medical concern with a crew member currently living and working aboard the orbital laboratory that is stable. Due to medical privacy, it is not appropriate for NASA to share more details about the crew member.

At 5:20 p.m. EST, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. At 3:29 p.m. EST, the crew closed the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and the return to Earth of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov of Russia. Crew-11 will then complete a parachute-assisted landing inside Dragon with a splashdown off the coast of California less than 12 hours later at about 3:40 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15. NASA and SpaceX support personnel will retrieve Dragon and the crew from the Pacific Ocean and return them to California before the crewmates fly back to their home agencies.

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Expedition 74 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)

JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Oleg Platonov, Sergei Mikaev

NASA Flight Engineers: Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, Chris Williams

Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 29 seconds

Release Date: Jan. 14, 2025

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