CAPE CANAVERAL: The Worldwide House Station returned to full power on Saturday (Feb 14) with the arrival of 4 new astronauts to switch colleagues who left early due to well being issues.
SpaceX delivered the US, French and Russian astronauts a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral.
Last month’s medical evacuation was NASA’s first in 65 years of human spaceflight. One of many 4 astronauts launched by SpaceX final summer time suffered what officers described as a severe well being concern, prompting their hasty return. That left solely three crew members to maintain the place operating – one American and two Russians – prompting NASA to pause spacewalks and trim analysis.
Shifting in for eight 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 former navy pilot, have lived up there earlier than. Throughout her first station go to in 2019, Meir took half within the first all-female spacewalk.
Adenot, a navy helicopter pilot, is just the second French lady to fly in house. Hathaway is a captain within the US Navy.
NASA has refused to disclose the identification of the astronaut who fell ailing in orbit on Jan 7 or clarify what occurred, citing medical privateness. The ailing astronaut and three others returned to Earth greater than a month ahead of deliberate. They spent their first night time again on Earth on the hospital earlier than returning to Houston.
The house company mentioned it didn’t alter its preflight medical checks for his or her replacements.
