Overview
- Fincke said he suddenly could not speak for about 20 minutes during dinner on January 7 aboard the International Space Station.
- Doctors ruled out a stroke after his return to Earth, and he has had no repeat episodes, but the cause remains unknown.
- NASA brought the four-person Crew-11 team home early to run MRI and other brain imaging that the station does not have.
- The incident led NASA to cancel a planned spacewalk that would have been crewmate Zena Cardman’s first.
- Mission schedules were reshuffled, including moving up the next crew launch that carried France’s Sophie Adenot to the station.