After spending months on the NASA space station, a crew member was hospitalized

A crew member of the eighth commercial space mission a pot and SpaceX That landed on Friday in Pensacola (Florida) after spending nearly eight months in International Space Station The US Space Agency stated that the International Space Station was hospitalized.

For reasons of confidentiality, NASA did not reveal the name of the person in the hospital or his health condition, but he is one of the Americans.

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Janet Epps, and Roscosmos astronaut Alexander Grebenkin arrived on Earth this morning after leaving the orbital station last Wednesday.

One of the astronauts remains at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, while other crew members traveled to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

“After landing safely on Earth as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission on Friday, a NASA astronaut experienced a medical issue,” the agency said in a statement.

According to NASA, travelers spent a total of 232 days aboard the International Space Station after taking off on March 3 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The SpaceX Crew-8 mission landed successfully today at 7:29 GMT, and rescue teams quickly secured the spacecraft after it fell into the sea and helped the astronauts get out.

During the mission, the crew traveled nearly 160 million kilometers and completed 3,760 orbits around the Earth.

The four conducted new scientific research to advance human exploration beyond low Earth orbit and benefit human life on Earth.

Among them, using stem cells to develop organoid models to study degenerative diseases, exploring how fuel temperature affects a material’s flammability, and studying how spaceflight affects astronauts’ immune function.

These commercial flights began in 2020, and allowed the United States to send astronauts from American soil again after the cancellation of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

Since the last flight of the shuttle Atlantis into Earth’s orbit in 2011, NASA has had to use only Russian launch systems such as Soyuz to launch astronauts into orbit.