Space station maneuver
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January 15, 2012, Sunday
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THE International Space Station has moved up and out of the way of a softball-sized piece of space junk. NASA officials said debris from an old US private communication satellite would have come within 5 kilometers of the orbiting outpost on Friday had the station not changed its orbit. Space junk moves so fast that it can puncture the station, so engineers try to give debris a wide berth whenever something comes close.
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