A discarded chunk of a Russian rocket missed the International Space Station on Saturday. And how did you spend your weekend?
The debris was "barely close enough to be a threat", according to NASA, but still close enough to force the six astronauts to seek shelter in escape capsules. The closest the debris came to the station was around 2:30 am, and wasn't noticed until Friday, when it was too late to move the International Space Station out of the way. Looks like somebody wasn't doing their job...
This is the third time in 12 years that astronauts have had to seek shelter from space junk. Most recently it was a disabled sattelite, and before that, it was Battlefield Earth in 2000.
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