The crew of the International space station (ISS) urgently moved to the docked Soyuz spacecraft. Team to evacuate from the station came from the Earth after detecting the approaching of a chip of the old Russian satellite.

Astronauts on the ISS do not have time to perform evasive maneuvers, and within the hour the station can meet with debris, including a huge piece of the Soviet satellite. The whole crew in this regard was moved docked to the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-16M. The astronauts will remain there until the special resolution control services.

"From ballistics by NASA, we received a warning about the rendezvous with the space station fragment of space debris. What is this thing, it is difficult to say, but the crew were ordered just in case to hide in the escape pod spaceship "the Union". I think that within the hour the situation becomes clearer", - quotes RIA Novosti the official representative of the Moscow mission control Center (MCC).

The source in space-rocket industry told Interfax that the expected dangerous proximity of the ISS with "space debris" - a fragment of the Soviet meteorological satellite "meteor-2", launched from Plesetsk in 1979. Moreover, "the possibility of collision of the object with the station exceeds a possible value".

However, he stressed that since "information about risky rapprochement came from the American side is extremely late, the ISS does not have time to perform evasive maneuvers". As noticed in NASA, all station systems now operate normally.
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