Space shuttle moves to avoid chunk of space junk

NASA has ordered the astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-space station complex to move out of the way of a piece of space junk. Late Sunday afternoon, Shuttle Discovery's crew fired the ship's thrusters to reorient it so it is in front of the international space station. NASA says it will stay that way for three hours, resulting in a natural drag of about a foot per second. That will move the complex enough to avoid a chunk of a Chinese rocket that's about four inches in diameter. The closest approach was supposed to happen about two hours into a spacewalk planned for Monday. More

(Source: Associated Press - Nov 30)