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The International Space Station crew members did not need to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft when a piece of debris from a Chinese satellite made its closest pass by the station at 1:47 p.m EDT. Mission Control gave the all-clear to the Expedition 24 crew at 12:45 p.m., after additional tracking information showed the debris would not come any closer than 5 miles (8 kilometers).
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Well that is good news. Space junk is sure a problem and it isn't getting any better. Something most definitely has to be done about it as more and more stuff is getting up there plus collisions creating more and smaller pieces of space junk floating about.
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