Four new astronauts arrive at the ISS to replace NASA's evacuated crew

The International Space Station is backmost to afloat spot with the accomplishment of 4 caller astronauts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The International Space Station returned to afloat spot with Saturday’s accomplishment of 4 caller astronauts to regenerate colleagues who bailed aboriginal due to the fact that of wellness concerns.

SpaceX delivered the U.S., French and Russian astronauts a time aft launching them from Cape Canaveral.

Last month’s aesculapian evacuation was NASA’s archetypal successful 65 years of quality spaceflight. One of 4 astronauts launched by SpaceX past summertime suffered what officials described arsenic a superior wellness issue, prompting their hasty return. That near lone 3 unit members to support the spot moving — 1 American and 2 Russians — prompting NASA to intermission spacewalks and trim research.

Moving successful for 8 to 9 months are NASA’s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France’s Sophie Adenot and Russia’s Andrei Fedyaev. Meir, a marine biologist, and Fedyaev, a erstwhile subject pilot, person lived up determination before. During her archetypal presumption sojourn successful 2019, Meir took portion successful the archetypal all-female spacewalk.

Adenot, a subject chopper pilot, is lone the 2nd French pistillate to alert successful space. Hathaway is simply a skipper successful the U.S. Navy.

NASA has refused to divulge the individuality of the astronaut who fell sick successful orbit connected Jan. 7 oregon explicate what happened, citing aesculapian privacy. The ailing astronaut and 3 others returned to Earth much than a period sooner than planned. They spent their archetypal nighttime backmost connected Earth astatine the infirmary earlier returning to Houston.

The abstraction bureau said it did not change its preflight aesculapian checks for their replacements.

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