Liz Wheeler

We put them through extensive medical training.

We put medical kits in all our spaceships.

The International Space Station itself is like almost an urgent care center because they use a lot of those tools for science and research.

And then we drill.

We train for the day that there is going to be, you know, an unexpected health-related incident.

And it happens.

And everyone did an extraordinary job.

The Crew 11 astronauts, their other expedition mates on the International Space Station, the flight surgeons in Mission Control, they all responded accordingly.

The incident was stabilized very quickly.

Unfortunately, due to the medical privacy rules, I can't tell you exactly what it was, other than clearly it was a very serious situation.

Something we had not seen before in space, but had accounted for the possibility.

and that is why uh you know we put in motion the option to bring our astronauts home uh early which i think really speaks to american leadership in space we we can send uh we can send our astronauts up um you know more or less on command which is what we're going to do with crew 12 is pull their mission forward and we can bring our astronauts home as required and this is very important to president trump and and obviously his position on american uh supremacy in space

Well, we're evaluating that timeline now because we're also preparing for the Artemis 2 mission, which is the one you mentioned in your opening comments, where we're going to send our astronauts farther into space than we've ever sent humans before, past the moon, back around the moon, and safely back to Earth.

So there's some overlap in timelines now, so we're evaluating both, which is a great problem to have, by the way.

I love the idea that we are trying to de-conflict multiple historic spaceflight missions.

But I do want to just give a compliment again.

The crew 11 made it easy for us to bring them home early.

They'd completed all their mission objectives, you know, almost ahead of schedule.

They were due to come home in a matter of weeks anyway.

They made it easy on us to bring them home early.