Splash Down of Crew-11 to Earth after medical evacuation from space station. I found this surreal!

Описание: The BBC showed this footage of the apparent Splash Down of Crew 11 this morning whilst I was having my cuppa and I found it to be utterly surreal. Did anybody else feel like what they were looking at may or may not be real?

Here's what the BBC said about it.

Astronauts return to Earth after first ever medical evacuation from space station

15 January 2026



Summary

Four astronauts who left the International Space Station a month early have returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of California

Crew-11 disembarked the Dragon Endeavour at about 01:30 local time (09:30 GMT) after a nearly 11 hour journey back to Earth

The astronauts, Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japan's Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are in "good spirits" and will now receive medical checks, Nasa says

Dr Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space, tells the BBC it will be a relief and a "luxury" for them to sleep in their own beds, adding they will "enjoy simple things"

It's the first time astronauts have been evacuated due to a health issue since the ISS was put into Earth's orbit in 1998

The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited since the year 2000

The incident is unprecedented in the history of the ISS, which has been permanently crewed for 26 years.

Space missions have ended early due to health issues just twice before.

In 1985, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Vasyutin and his colleagues returned four months ahead of schedule from a mission to the Salyut 7 space station due to a urological issue.

And in 1987, a heart arrhythmia caused Soviet cosmonaut Aleksandr Laveykin to leave the Mir space station early.

As more and more humans travel into space, including for tourism and a possible occupation of the Moon or even Mars, space experts say doctors will need to travel on missions.

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