PA MediaThree Nasa astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to hospital last month have declined to say which one of them was sick.
Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps publicly discussed their spaceflight for the first time since returning from the International Space Station on October 25.
They spent nearly eight months in orbit, longer than expected because of trouble with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule and rough weather, including Hurricane Milton.
Soon after their SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast, the three were taken to a hospital in nearby Pensacola along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who launched with them back in March.
One of the Americans ended up spending the night there for an undisclosed “medical issue”. Nasa declined to say who was admitted hospital or why, citing medical privacy.
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