SpaceX Crew-11 returns to Houston after five-month ISS mission

The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission have arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where they will continue standard postflight reconditioning and evaluations.

The crew — NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov — splashed down on Jan. 15 off the coast of San Diego, completing a more than five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Following splashdown and recovery, they completed a planned overnight stay at a local medical facility and have been released as expected; all crew members remain stable.

To protect the crew’s medical privacy, no specific details regarding condition or individual will be shared. NASA said the astronauts and cosmonaut will continue postflight reconditioning and evaluations at Johnson Space Center, and readers can learn more about station activities via the space station blog, @space_station on X, and the ISS Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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