ISS Crew Shelters Briefly After Russian Satellite Breakup

The seven Expedition 71 crewmembers gather with the two Crew Flight Test members aboard the space station. In the front from left are Suni Williams, Oleg Kononenko, and Butch Wilmore. Second row from left are Alexander Grebenkin, Tracy C. Dyson, and Mike Barratt. In the back are Nikolai Chub, Jeanette Epps, and Matthew Dominick.

Credit: NASA TV
HOUSTON—The nine International Space Station (ISS) U.S. and Russian crewmembers were instructed by NASA’s Mission Control to take shelter in their respective Crew Dragon, Boeing CST-100 Starliner and Soyuz transport capsules late June 26, following the breakup of a decommissioned low-Earth-orbiting...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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