Thursday, March 12, 2009

Space junk...

almost whacks the International Space Station today. NASA was so concerned that a fragment of spacecraft debris would impact the ISS that the three astronauts on board took momentary refuge in the docked Soyuz spacecraft in case there would be rapid depressurization of the station modules.

All is well.

Related: an interesting article on the law of space collisions.

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