<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA is cutting short the Crew-11 mission aboard the International Space Station due to a crewmember&#8217;s medical issue, and canceling the first spacewalk of the year that was originally planned for Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I have come to the decision that it&#8217;s in the best interest of our astronauts to return Crew-11 ahead of their planned departure,” NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said Thursday in a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffcV3jCwwPk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">press conference</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, adding that their return would take place “in the coming days.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The space agency released no further details on the name of the crewmember or of the medical situation, but reiterated that the astronaut is now fully stable.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. James Polk, NASA’s chief health and medical officer, said, “It’s not an emergency evacuation, but we are erring on the side of caution for the crew member.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The spacewalk was to be performed by American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, who would exit the orbiting lab for almost 7 hours and &#8220;finish preparing a power channel where a new solar array is set to be installed on the ISS,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-cancels-spacewalk-and-considers-early-crew-return-from-iss-due-to-medical-issues">Live Science</a>. It would have been Cardman&#8217;s first spacewalk, and Fincke&#8217;s ninth.</span></p>
<p>The other two astronauts were Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The American-Japanese-Russian crew first arrived on the ISS in August 2025 and was scheduled for at least a sixth-month stay. </span>The group was then supposed to be replaced with Crew-12 in mid-February, but this is now up in the air due to the early departure. Isaacman said they may &#8220;potentially pull [the crew] forward.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It is unclear what returning Crew-11 home early would mean for the ISS, as such changes to the usual rotation are highly unusual,&#8221; Live Science reported.</p>
<p>There are also three other astronauts currently living on the space station who launched from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in November and are due back to Earth in the summer.</p>
<p>NASA announced it will provide further details regarding the upcoming crew in the next 48 hours.</p>

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