The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying a sick astronaut on board has been undocked from the International Space Station (ISS). Broadcasting from the scene was carried out on the NASA page on the social network X.
The return of the evacuated cosmonauts is expected to end with a crash off the California coast at 03:41 Thursday morning local time (14:41 Moscow time).
It is known that the crew of Flight Crew-11 completed the mission. The team will return to Earth ahead of schedule due to one of the astronauts having health problems.
Only one NASA astronaut, Christopher Williams, will remain at the space station. In addition, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Mikaev and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, who led Expedition 74 a day earlier, remained on the ISS.
NASA emphasized that this was the first time such a medical evacuation from the ISS had been carried out, so the command transfer procedure was also substandard. Fink initially planned to hand over leadership to the future commander of Crew-12, astronaut Jessica Meir, who is expected to arrive at the station in February.
Previously, NASA expressed hope that Russian astronauts would help operate US systems on the ISS.
