An American astronaut, hospitalized Friday after returning to Earth after a stay of more than seven months in the International Space Station, left the hospital “in good health” on Saturday, NASA assured.
This “crew member is in good health and will resume the normal post-flight process with the other” astronauts at the Houston Space Center (Texas), the American agency said in a press release.
The latter did not reveal the identity of the astronaut in question, nor the reasons for his hospitalization, for questions of “medical confidentiality”.
However, he is one of three Americans on SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission, a regular rotation mission for the crew of the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps returned to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, after spending 232 days on the ISS.
A fourth, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebionkin, returned with them.
The landing maneuver, off the coast of Florida, went normally, but a NASA astronaut then had “a medical problem,” according to the agency.
The four professionals were then all transported to the hospital in Pensacola (Florida). Only one remained hospitalized there, “in stable condition and under observation as a precautionary measure”.
