Space debris forces station crew to take shelter in Soyuz capsules
William Harwood - CBS News
The six-man crew of the International Space Station split up and briefly took shelter inside two three-seat Russian Soyuz re-entry vehicles early Saturday as a piece of space junk whizzed past the lab complex at some 5 miles per second. Radar tracking indicated the debris, which NASA officials said came from an old Russian Cosmos satellite, might pass within some 6.8 to 8.7 miles of the lab complex at 2:38 a.m. EDT (GMT-4) Saturday.
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