A close one for the space station
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:54 PM by Alan Boyle
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The international space station's three crew members climbed into their Soyuz lifeboat as a "precautionary measure" while a tiny piece of space junk passed by today, NASA said. The space agency said the debris from a spent satellite rocket motor zipped past, apparently without causing damage, and the crew was given the all-clear to return to the station and resume normal operations.
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