NASA astronaut who required evacuation from ISS ‘doing very well’

Colonel Mike Fincke experienced a “medical event” aboard the International Space Station. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NEW YORK - The astronaut who faced a health issue prompting the first-ever medical evacuation in International Space Station history is “doing very well,” he said in a statement issued by NASA on Feb 25.

Colonel Mike Fincke, 58, said he’s “doing very well and continuing standard post-flight reconditioning” at NASA’s centre in Houston.

NASA had previously declined to identify which astronaut experienced the “medical event”, the details of which they still did not disclose in their Feb 25 statement.

The health issue prompted NASA to cut short the mission of a quartet including Americans Col Fincke and Zena Cardman, along with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.

Col Fincke said that his Jan 7 health mishap required “immediate attention from my incredible crewmates.”

“Thanks to their quick response and the guidance of our NASA flight surgeons, my status quickly stabilised.”