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Good morning, everyone.

Welcome to Morning Run.

It is Thursday, or Friday Eve, as we like to call it here.

January 15th, I'm Amy Robo.

And I'm T.J. Holmes got an earlier start this morning because we're a bit of space geeks. This was cool. It doesn't matter. This is the one thing that lets me know I'm maybe still doing something right. I still have childlike wonder when it comes to space stuff. And this was a, we had a landing today. We had a comeback. It's sweet that you said we. I saw the astronauts actually

getting out of the capsule. You watched the thing land. Yeah, and it landed around 3.40 this morning,

but, you know, they had to evacuate. But it's just, I am so fascinated by all things. Space.

Yeah. How do they do what they do?

It's mind-blowing. It absolutely is. But yes, they are back. We'll get into some of the details there, but it was cool to have them back. They're back on, no, well, who likes to cut a trip short by a month? But we'll get into, but they are back safely. So we're going to start with that here in just a bit, but we'll also let you know that on the run this morning, we're going to be making stops in Albuquerque, New Mexico, St. Louis, Missouri, Minneapolis,

Fairfax, Virginia, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Actually, we have to make two stops by 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue on the run today. We'll explain why. Not that surprising these days,

but we do begin our run

down here on Earth, where NASA's first ever medical evacuation took place and it all happened

safely. They splashed down, as you pointed out, at 3.40 a.m. Eastern time, which you were

awake and watching with bated breath and childlike enthusiasm. It happened off the coast

of Southern California. It was a four-person crew. There were two Americans, one Japanese,

and one Russian. And we don't know who had the medical issue. They didn't release that,

and good for them for not doing so. But one of them, yes, you heard, they were supposed to be

up there another month at the International Space Station. One of them had a medical issue. They didn't want to call it an emergency, but Robes. It was serious enough that this is the first time ever that NASA has cut a trip short for a medical issue. It sounds serious. Yeah, you think about what goes into planning these missions and the timing that has to be

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