NASA is preparing to conduct its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS), activating a contingency plan to return a crew to Earth months ahead of schedule. The plan, developed decades ago for medical emergencies in space ...

Four space station fliers have been told to cut their mission short and return to Earth ahead of schedule because of an apparently serious medical issue affecting an unidentified crew member, NASA announced Thursday. "Yesterday, January 7, a single crew ...

NEW YORK — In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four will return to Earth in the coming days ...

Four new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching into orbit early Friday morning

The Crew 12 docking came one month after a previous crew had to return to Earth early due to a medical issue.

Last week, NASA announced that it had postponed a January 8 spacewalk after a crew member suffered a medical incident on board the International Space Station. The agency said at the time that the “matter involved a single crew member who is stable.”

When something goes wrong with a human body in orbit, there is no nearby emergency room, no quick ambulance ride, and no easy way home. NASA has had to build an entire parallel health system that can function in microgravity, inside a cramped spacecraft ...

NASA will stream live coverage of the upcoming prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission