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| ISS SOS: The plan to leave a doomed space station - quickly |
| 2026-01-17 |
| [BBC] Astronauts orbiting the Earth are drilled to deal with the worst possible scenarios. That includes having to leave a doomed space station – quickly. On Thursday (15 January), the four astronauts who made up Crew-11 on the International Space Station (ISS) splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. One of the four crew members had reported a medical emergency which couldn't be treated with the space station's modest resources. Instead, they had to evacuate. America's Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japan's Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov had arrived in August 2025 and planned to stay the standard six-and-a-half months on the station. But the medical emergency necessitated the entire crew coming back together on the SpaceX-made capsule that had delivered them to the ISS. The incident shows human exploration of the Solar System, even in low orbit, can never be considered routine. |
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