- MOSCOW (Interfax) - Russian and U.S. mission
control experts are scrutinizing photographs of an unidentified object
that the International Space Station crew saw flying near the ISS but that
a NASA spokesman dismissed as "no danger" to the station.
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- "It's so far unclear what kind of object it
was," NASA public relations officer Sergei Puzanov told Interfax.
But "this object poses no danger to the ISS."
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- An earlier NASA report said that, after checking
the engines of the Progress supply spaceship, the ISS crew, Russian Alexander
Kaleri and American Michael Foale, noticed a narrow strip of apparently
soft material, 20 to 25 centimeters long, that was moving away from the
station.
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- Some specialists believe the object may have been
a piece of insulation, and others think it may have been part of a ribbon
fixing something outside the station. "It may prove impossible to
determine what it is," Russian mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin
told Interfax.
- "There was already an instance on the [Russian]
Mir station where it proved impossible to determine the origin of an object
that had been noticed outside the station, and specialists gave up their
studies. "Those aboard the Mir had noticed a glittering object. Cosmonaut
Musa Manarov made a video recording, which was urgently transmitted to
Earth, but it proved impossible to determine the origin of the UFO. Specialists'
conclusions varied."
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