NASA's decision to bring Crew-11 home early marks the first medical evacuation from the International Space Station.

The crew member remains in stable condition, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a news conference at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC.

We now know when the first medical evacuation in the history of the International Space Station will take place. On Friday night (Jan. 9), NASA announced that it's targeting Wednesday (Jan. 14) for the earlier-than-expected departure of SpaceX's four-person Crew-11 mission from the orbiting lab.

NASA ​on Friday ‌said the space ​agency and ‍SpaceX are targeting ​to ​undock ⁠the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station ‌no earlier than 5 ​p.m. ‌ET (2200 GMT) ‍on Wednesday,

The members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 are preparing to undock from the International Space Station on Wednesday and splash into the Pacific Ocean the following day, bringing home a crewmate who suffered a medical situation on the orbiting platform.

NASA has decided to bring the Crew-11 astronauts home a month earlier than originally planned due to a “medical concern” with one of them. This is the first time in its history that the space agency is cutting a mission short due to a medical issue,

NASA has announced the early return of Crew-11 from the International Space Station after an unidentified astronaut experienced a medical problem.

NASA has postponed Thursday's spacewalk from the International Space Station because of an astronaut medical issue. The person is stable.