Space junk damages ISS US segment

Space junk damages ISS US segment
by Staff Writers
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 08, 2014

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Space debris has damaged a cooling system radiator of the International Space Station US, the NASA website said. Images of the ISS surface captured by external cameras were being analyzed and there was no leak from the cooling system.

The NASA delegation to the Russian Mission Control Center has made no comment on the situation.

The ISS is manned by Russia's Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and Maxim Surayev, U.S. astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst.

Source: Voice of Russia

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