Four astronauts who left the International Space Station a month early have returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of California
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Crew-11 disembarked the Dragon Endeavour at about 01:30 local time (09:30 GMT) after a nearly 11 hour journey back to Earth
The astronauts, Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Japan’s Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are in “good spirits” and will now receive medical checks, Nasa says
Dr Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space, tells the BBC it will be a relief and a “luxury” for them to sleep in their own beds, adding they will “enjoy simple things”
It’s the first time astronauts have been evacuated due to a health issue since the ISS was put into Earth’s orbit in 1998
