A NASA astronaut who was briefly hospitalised on returning from space has been released, the American space agency has said. NASA's Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin were flown to the hospital for additional medical checks on Friday after parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast aboard a SpaceX capsule.

A NASA astronaut was taken to the hospital for an undisclosed medical issue after returning from a nearly eight-month space station stay.