Record-setting astronaut Suni Williams retires from NASA
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NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.
The ISS has been continuously occupied in low Earth orbit since November 2000. That this was the first medical evacuation ever needed speaks not only to the training of NASA's and other space agencies' astronauts, but also the resources and preparedness of the station itself to deal with unexpected medical issues.