Satellite Debris Forces ISS Crew Into Rescue Craft

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2009 @05:52AM from the plenty-of-mint-gum dept.

Muad'Dave writes "CNN is reporting that the crew of the International Space Station was forced to take refuge from a possible collision of the ISS with a piece of space debris Thursday. From the article: 'Floating debris from a satellite forced the crew of the international space station to retreat to a safety capsule Thursday, according to a NASA news release. .. The debris was too close for the space station to move out of the way, so the station's three crew members were temporarily evacuated to a the station's Soyuz TMA-13 capsule, NASA said.'" Update: 03/12 18:42 GMT by T : The original story incorrectly said the ISS had 18 crew members. Luckily for the three in the Soyuz, that was a mistake.

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Re:Unit conversions by shadowbearer · 2009-03-12 12:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

22000 mph is "almost" ten km/s. Doesn't matter how the original figure was derived.
Oh, and you are a pedantic idiot. Go find something useful to do.
SB

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