Four astronauts have been evacuated from the International Space Station (ISS) after their planned six-and-a-half-month visit to space was cut short by a month due to a “serious” medical issue.
It’s the first time astronauts have been evacuated due to a health issue since the station was put into Earth’s orbit in 1998.
But could this incident portend serious, longer-term implications for any future attempts to journey off the planet, visit other worlds, or survive elsewhere should our home planet eventually become uninhabitable?
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