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The early departure of Crew-11, leaving Williams as the only US astronaut aboard, also means NASA will be unable to perform spacewalks. This will mean a “slightly elevated risk” in NASA’s ability to respond to a major hardware failure that might require a spacewalk to fix, said Amit Kshatriya, the agency’s associate administrator.
NASA is cutting short an International Space Station (ISS) mission due to one astronaut suffering a ‘serious medical condition’. All four crew are returning to earth months earlier than planned, in NASA’s first ever medical evacution, senior space officials have announced.