Space Station crew return from Soyuz

Russian mission control today said the crew on board the International Space Station have returned from the Soyuz module after…

Russian mission control today said the crew on board the International Space Station have returned from the Soyuz module after a threat from passing debris.

"The crew have returned to the station. They are in absolutely no danger and the debris has already passed by the station," a spokesman for Russia's mission control said by telephone.

"They didn't even close the hatch between the station and the Soyuz and sat there for only about ten minutes. We do not know where the space debris was from," he said.

Reuters

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