# Crew 11 Medical Evacuation

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crew-11-medical-evacuation/6233>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** crew-dragon, international-space-station, space\
**Created:** [9 January 2026 21:27 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crew-11-medical-evacuation/6233 "2026-01-09T21:27:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [9 January 2026 21:27 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crew-11-medical-evacuation/6233/1 "2026-01-09T21:27:57Z")

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> **[SpaceX Crew-11 | Medical incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-11#Medical_incident)**
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> On January 7, 2026, one of the astronauts experienced an undisclosed "medical situation" that prompted NASA to cut the mission short. The medical issue already caused the cancellation of a planned extravehicular activity, USA EVA 94 that was supposed to take place on January 8, 2026. The EVA would have prepared the station to receive the final pair of ISS Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSAs). At a news conference on January 8, 2026, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced that Crew-11 would

Leaves only three people in the station.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZuN4tBooNkY/maxresdefault.jpg "NASA chief announces 1st-ever medical evacuation from space station, Crew-11 to come home early") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuN4tBooNkY)

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bP1-4PtSEI8/maxresdefault.jpg "NASA Astronaut Medical Emergency - What We Know") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1-4PtSEI8)

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**Author:** ![civilwestman](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/civilwestman/32/25_2.png) [@civilwestman](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/civilwestman)\
**Post date:** [11 January 2026 22:03 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crew-11-medical-evacuation/6233/2 "2026-01-11T22:03:09Z")

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I can’t help but wonder is we would be given more information if it turned out this medical condition were in an “assigned-at-birth-male astronaut suffering from whiteness as a comorbidity. Might not it offend DEI “equity” if this is an “assigned-female-at birth” and/or POC with a medical condition? Is that even possible, given the exigencies of disparate impact?

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**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Post date:** [14 January 2026 23:22 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crew-11-medical-evacuation/6233/3 "2026-01-14T23:22:49Z")

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> Dragon separation confirmed [pic.twitter.com/fvkyqAuZ29](https://t.co/fvkyqAuZ29)
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> — SpaceX (@SpaceX) [January 14, 2026](https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2011564565180432682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)