NASA indicated that the largest window of risk from debris had occurred during the first 24 hours.
NASA announced Wednesday that the crew of the International Space Station had resumed its normal duties following a significant risk of impact from Russian space debris.announced the agency and U.S. Space Command were continuing to monitor the debris cloud, but deemed the ISS crew members were safe.
Following this, the American and Russian crew members were ushered into the Dragon and Soyuz spacecraft, respectively, in order to wait out the most dangerous period of debris. This only lasted for two hours, however, before the high-risk period ended. "If orbital debris were to strike the station and cause an air leak, the crew would close hatches to the affected module," NASA stated."If crew members do not have time to close the affected module, they would enter their respective spacecraft and, if necessary, undock from the space station to return to Earth."
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