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4 hours ago by Marcia Dunn

The International Space Station sidestepped a piece of treacherous junk Monday just hours before the planned launch of a supply ship from Virginia.

NASA said debris from an old, wrecked Russian satellite would have come dangerously close to the orbiting lab if not for the move.

The space station was maneuvered well out of harm's way to keep the outpost and its six inhabitants safe.

Mission Control was informed of the space junk over the weekend. It is wreckage from a Kosmos satellite that was launched in 1993 and collided with an Iridium spacecraft in 2009.

Mission Control said the space station's relocation would not affect Monday evening's scheduled launch of a commercial supply ship.

Orbital Sciences Corp.'s unmanned Cygnus capsule holds 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of cargo for NASA, including 32 mini research satellites, a meteor tracker, and a tank of high-pressure nitrogen to replenish a vestibule used by spacewalking astronauts. Liftoff was scheduled for 6:45 p.m. from Wallops Island, Virginia.

The launch, coming a half-hour after sunset, should be visible along much of the Eastern Seaboard, from South Carolina to Connecticut and Massachusetts. As an added bonus, the space station was to pass overhead five minutes later, resembling a fast-moving star.

Traffic is heavy these days 260 miles (418 kilometers) up.

Just this past Saturday, a Dragon cargo ship supplied by the California-based SpaceX companyits fifthdeparted the space station after a monthlong visit and splashed into the Pacific with a load of precious science samples.

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SpaceX Falcon cargo ship blasts off to International Space Station
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Space Station Live: Student Spaceflight Experiment Program
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Space Engineers rotating space station idea
Like the tittle says.

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Dragon Leaves the International Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft leaves the International Space Station on the morning of Saturday, October 25. The Dragon delivered almost 5000 pounds of supplies and elements to the station...

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[Antares] Cygnus CRS-3 Spacecraft Encapsulated in Payload Fairing Ahead of Launch
The next Cygnus Spacecraft to visit the International Space Station, CRS-3, was encapsulated into it #39;s payload fairing on October 23rd having already been attached to the Antares second stage...

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Indie Impressions - Caffeine (Preview Build)
Today we #39;re going to have a look at an upcoming sci-fi first-person horror game called Caffeine by developer Dylan Browne. We wake up in an abandoned space station designed by big corporations...

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Space: Watch the SpaceX Dragon leave ISS
Video ID: 20141025-020 W/S ISS with SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft W/S Johnson Space Center, Houston M/S Johnson Space Center, Houston W/S International Space Station with SpaceX Dragon ...

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Intro to Attack Of The B-Team Space station! Ep. 1: Captian #39;s Section!
Finally! An Attack of The B-Team Ep.!

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Propagator Test: Dragon undocking the International Space Station
Actually i wanted to work over the new propagator as i noticed that the Dragon was just begining to undock from the ISS. I imediately chose to capture this event while running the propagator,...

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