Space station dodges piece of old NASA satellite, no big impact on Monday shuttle launch

The International Space Station has steered clear of space junk. Flight controllers fired thrusters on the space station Tuesday morning. That moved the orbiting lab and its crew of six safely away from a chunk of an old NASA research satellite. The debris originally was projected to come within one-tenth of a mile (about 160 metres) of the space station. The latest estimate put the close approach at a half-mile (800 metres). Because of the uncertainty, NASA elected to move the space station. More

(Source: The Canadian Press - Oct 28)