NASA Moves Up Crew 11 Return After ISS Medical Event (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Yesterday, January 7th, a single crew member on board the station experienced a medical situation and is now stable. After discussions with Chief Health and Medical Officer, Dr. J.D. Polk, and leadership across the agency, I've come to the decision that it's in the best interest of our astronauts to return Crew 11 ahead of their planned departure.

[00:00:38] Speaker 2: We have a very robust suite of medical hardware on board the International Space Station, but we don't have the complete amount of hardware that I would have in the emergency department, for example, to complete a workup of a patient. It leaves that lingering risk and lingering question as to what that diagnosis is, and that means there's some lingering risk for that astronaut on board. And so, always, we err on the side of the astronaut's health and welfare, and in this particular case, we are doing the same.