WATCH LIVE: Returning NASA astronauts from SpaceX Crew-8 discuss their 235-day mission in space

Three NASA astronauts speak at a news conference Friday after spending more than seven months in space aboard the International Space Station.

The event is scheduled to begin at 3:15 p.m. ET. Watch it live in our player above.

Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps of NASA and Alexander Grebenkin of Russia were flown to a hospital for further medical evaluation in late October after parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida aboard a SpaceX capsule .

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Three were released and returned to Houston. A NASA astronaut – who was not identified – was held for observation for an unspecified medical problem and released the following day. Citing patient privacy, the space agency declined to identify the astronaut or provide details about his condition – except to say the astronaut was in “good health” and was “resuming the normal post-flight recovery period with other crew members.” become”.

The crew arrived at the space station in March and should have been back on Earth two months ago. But the return trip was delayed by Hurricane Milton and problems with Boeing’s new Starliner astronaut capsule.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the Starliner test pilots whose mission was scheduled to last just eight days, will remain in space until February.