Safety protocol place in region for only the fourth time in 16-year history of ISS as crew seeks protection from potentially lethal space debrisA piece of space junk threatened to crash into the international space station,forcing the three astronauts to seek emergency shelter.For nearly an hour on Thursday, the American and two Russians hunkered down in their Soyuz capsule, or which is docked to the space station,in case they had to effect a rapid/fast getaway. The fragment from an old Russian weather satellite ended up passing harmlessly, about 1½ miles (3kms) away.Continue reading..., or
Source: theguardian.com