ISS crew safely home after unprecedented medical evacuation - UPI.com

Jan. 14 (UPI) -- NASA's Crew-11 returned safely to Earth on Thursday after the first ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station.

The agency posted a video online of SpaceX's Dragon space capsule carrying American astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and Kimiya Yui of Japan, splashing down in the Pacific off the coast of San Diego at 3.41 a.m. EST.

"Welcome home! Splashdown of Crew-11 after 167 days in space," NASA announced.

NASA also posted a photo of the crew inside their capsule after splashdown.

ISS crew safely home after unprecedented medical evacuation - UPI.com

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