CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA will decide later today if it will move the international space station to avoid a piece of debris from an old Soviet satellite. The debris could come within about half a mile of the space station on Tuesday.
The space station had a close call with debris last week but was not moved. If NASA does decide to move the space station, it will have to fire the station’s engines to nudge it out of the path of the debris.
The debris is from a Soviet satellite that broke apart in 1981. NASA’s records show it has moved the space station out of the way of debris eight times in the past.
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