July 7, 2015
...For about an hour, (click here) the American and two Russians had to hunker down in their Soyuz spacecraft, which is docked to the International Space Station, in case they had to make a quick getaway.
...For about an hour, (click here) the American and two Russians had to hunker down in their Soyuz spacecraft, which is docked to the International Space Station, in case they had to make a quick getaway.
The fragment from an old Russian weather satellite ended up passing harmlessly, about one-and-a-half miles away.
It is only the fourth time in the
16-year history of the space station that a crew has had to rush into a
Soyuz for protection from potentially dangerous debris....