SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut hospitalized but in ‘stable condition’ after splashdown, NASA says | CNN

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Three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut were unexpectedly transferred to a medical facility in Florida rather than returning to their home base in Houston after their splashdown early Friday morning aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

One of those astronauts remained in the hospital Friday afternoon with a “medical issue,” while the three others flew to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston after a health evaluation at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, a hospital near the crew’s splashdown site in the Gulf of Mexico.

NASA did not provide any further details about the crew member who remained at the medical facility.

“To protect the crew member’s medical…