Oct. 25 (UPI) -- One of the SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts that splashed down early Friday morning off Pensacola, Fla., was in stable condition later Friday in Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola after experiencing a medical issue.

A crew of US and Russian astronauts were treated after landing off the coast of Florida on Friday. The four were onboard the ISS for over seven months, with Hurricane Milton delaying their return.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months.

A NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical issue after returning from a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton, the space agency said Friday. A SpaceX capsule carrying three Americans and one Russian parachuted before dawn into the Gulf…

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months

A NASA astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station has been hospitalized for an unspecified medical condition.

Throughout their stay on the ISS, the crew conducted numerous scientific experiments and maintenance tasks, contributing to ongoing research in microgravity environments.

NASA said that one astronaut remains hospitalized Friday, hours after a four-person crew from the International Space Station splashed down off the coast of Florida.

A NASA astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station has been hospitalised for an unspecified medical condition but remains stable, the US space agency has said.

Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico to close out an extended 235-day expedition to the International Space Station. But one crew member experienced a “medical issue” of some sort after splashdown and was hospitalized in Pensacola.