A crew of four astronauts is set to depart the International Space Station on Wednesday in NASA’s first-ever medical evacuation following an undisclosed ailment with one of the crew members.
The astronauts are expected to undock from the station at roughly 5 p.m. New York time in a SpaceX Dragon capsule and splash down off the coast of California at around 3:40 a.m. on Thursday. The evacuation will cut the crew’s expected stay on the ISS short by roughly a month.