Shortly after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on October 25, the SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts are spotted inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft aboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN.

After splashing down onboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule early Friday morning, three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut were abruptly sent to a medical clinic in Florida instead of going back to their home base in Houston, Texas.

NASA reports that the four-person crew had a "safe splashdown and recovery" after spending almost eight months on board the ISS before touching down in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday at 3:29 a.m. ET.

But according to a NASA news chief statement sent at 8 a.m. ET, the astronauts "were taken to a local medical facility for additional evaluation."

Warner stated, "As a precaution, all crew members were flown to the facility together after the crew disembarked from the Dragon spacecraft onto a recovery ship for standard post-flight medical evaluations."

At 9 a.m. ET, Warner affirmed that the crew remained at the medical facility, but he did not elaborate on the specifics of the medical examinations. She added that the team was transported to Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, a medical facility close to the crew's Gulf splashdown location.

The four crewmates — including NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos — make up the staff of Crew-8, a routine mission to the International Space Station that was carried out by SpaceX on behalf of NASA.

During a livestream of their splashdown overnight, all four astronauts were seen waving and grinning as they stepped out of their Crew Dragon capsule and onto a recovery ship.