NASA orders early ISS crew return after health issue (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: A lot of people are searching up the term NASA astronaut after the space agency announced a rare move yesterday, opting to bring a four-person crew home early from the International Space Station, citing a medical concern. It's the first time in history NASA has prematurely ended an ISS staffing mission due to a health issue. NASA hasn't released the name of the astronaut or provided any details about the nature of their condition, other than to say the person is currently stable and they're not expected to require any special treatment during the trip home. For those following this story and wondering when they'll be back, stay tuned. NASA's new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said yesterday that it will be within days. Isaacman said Thursday it was he who made the call to bring the astronauts back. While there's a suite of medical equipment on the ISS, they don't have all the diagnostic tools that a typical emergency room would have. And this situation began unfolding on Wednesday evening when two NASA astronauts, Mike Fink and Zena Cardman, were preparing for a spacewalk but were forced to cancel those plans. Cardman and Fink will now return home with their two crewmates, a Russian cosmonaut and a Japanese astronaut, on board the same SpaceX capsule in which they arrived last August. And now you're looped in.