Space Station Wasn’t in Path of Adrift Junk
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NASA’s warning of a possible collision with a speeding piece of space junk that sent the international space station scrambling for a higher orbit turned out to be a false alarm.
Astronauts used thrusters on the space shuttle Discovery, which is docked with the space station, to boost the orbit by about 10 miles.
Mission Control’s worry was a shoebox-sized piece of hardware lost on a spacewalk earlier this week.
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