Astronauts on the ISS Station must shelter because of cosmic garbage

A debris from Russia's old satellite flew through the International Space Station (ISS) on March 24, forcing six crew members of the ISS to temporarily shelter at two Soyuz escape capsules.

In a series of updates on Twitter, NASA said that this is the third time ISS faces danger in more than a decade of continuous occupation of pilots on the base.

Meanwhile, the Russian space agency said that the debris flew over ISS at a distance of 23km, prompting astronauts of three Russians, two Americans and a Dutch to move to two Soyuz capsules. .

International space station

The crew had waited until the debris flew over to breathe a sigh of relief back to work.

Soyuz capsules assembled with ISS are used by the crew to return to Earth after completing missions or in emergency situations.

Cosmos 2251 satellite with debris flying through ISS on March 24 was launched by Russia in 1993.

The most recent incident occurred in June last year when a piece of aerial junk close to ISS was only about 250m away.

There are millions of pieces of metal, plastic and glass flying around the Earth. That's what remains of about 4,600 launches since humans began exploring the universe 55 years ago.