A piece of space junk hurtling through the void narrowly missed hitting and depressurizing the $100 billion International Space Station, forcing station crew members to take brief shelter in a Russian Soyuz space vehicle. The space junk, a piece of a satellite motor, was zooming at orbital speed (17,500 miles an hour, plus intersecting velocity added to that) toward the station. The space junk trajectory was irregular, so even though trackers estimated it would miss the station, NASA ordered a…
Space Junk Narrowly Misses Space Station As Crew Members Take Shelter In Soyuz; Incident Demonstrates Rising Space Junk Threat
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