Space Debris No Threat to Station

The Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station did not need to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft when a piece of debris from a Chinese satellite made its closest pass at 4:21 p.m. EDT Tuesday, at least 3.5 miles (6 kilometers) from the station.

Mission Control Center gave the crew the all-clear at 2:41 p.m. as the space station orbited 220 miles above eastern Asia.

Flight controllers had been monitoring the debris from the Chinese FENGYUN 1C satellite since ea [...]

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