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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 07:09 am
According to several news agencies (here translated from the dpa):
Quote:Unidentified floating object near International Space Station
27 June 2006
MOSCOW - An unknown floating object close to the International Space Station ISS has concerned ground control, according to reports from the US Space Agency NASA on Tuesday.
The object is approximately 2.8 kilometres away from the International Space Station, said the Russian flight control centre in Moscow, citing a NASA source.
The situation is quite serious, but does not yet require a dodge manoeuvre, said Russian flight trajectory expert Alexander Kireyev.
"The object has no number in the list of space debris," Kireyev said, according to reports from the Russian Itar-Tass agency.
"It is however probably an old piece of space exploration equipment."
If the object gets any closer to the ISS, astronauts Jeff Williams and Pavel Vinogradov would have to take the precaution of moving to the rescue space shuttle Soyuz TM.
A dodge manoeuvre could cause difficulties for the docking of the US space ship "Discovery", due to be launched on July 1.
Hey - cool. Hey Walter, had you noticed my 'UFO' thread? someone mentioned your story over there...
Indeed this is weird, Walter. I cannot read the topic review, but I think that you said the object hovered. Coincidence? Funny that snood just had a thread concerning this very thing.
Does seem highly likely this "Unexplained Floating Object" is much, much less unexplained than some would prefer to believe.
Well, in all the news about it there was nothing spectatular about the subject per se but if it was a danger and how dangerous it was.
And that's the only reason why I posted this.
Neither of my links/posts says something like in timber's post nor did I start/do any such speculations.
That's okay, Walter. Nobody in my thread said anything about seeing a "flying saucer" before Setanta used the term.
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