With Crew-11 set to depart shortly, command of the ISS will fall to Russian cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. He'll remain on the station with fellow Soyuz travellers, NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Mikaev. They will be the only crew aboard the station until SpaceX Crew-12 launches in February.

The Crew-11 astronauts will be medically evacuated today from the International Space Station and land in California. How to watch NASA's coverage.

NASA has carried out its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS), sending four astronauts back to Earth more than a month ahead of schedule. The decision was taken after one crew member required medical evaluation that could not be fully conducted in space.

Medical Issue on the ISS Leads NASA to Consider Shortening Crew Mission A medical situation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has prompted NASA to

Recent discoveries include fossils in a Moroccan cave that may be linked to early Homo sapiens ancestors, and a serious medical issue aboard the ISS prompting the early return of astronauts. The fossils,