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4 astronauts return early from International Space Station, splash down safely in Pacific Ocean
Four astronauts returned to Earth early Thursday morning after leaving the International Space Station a month early because of a medical issue.
A SpaceX ship recovered the spacecraft from the ocean and at around 1:30 a.m. and welcomed aboard NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, plus Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
Two American astronauts and others from Japan and Russia landed in the Pacific Ocean after an early journey home from the International Space Station because one of them was ill.