Cape Canaveral, Fla. — 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 NASA astronaut experienced a "medical issue" after landing off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., on Friday morning, prompting the four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission to be taken to a local hospital.

A NASA astronaut suffered a medical issue and remains hospitalized in Florida on Friday after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month stay in space. NASA did not reveal which of the three NASA astronauts of the four-person crew of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission suffered the issue,