There are no obstacles to the flight of the station, Roscosmos reported
MOSCOW, November 25. /tass/. A fragment of the American Falcon 9 rocket passed more than 5 km from the International Space Station, there is no threat to the ISS. This was reported to journalists on Thursday in the press service of Roscosmos.
"According to specialists of the state Corporation Roscosmos, a fragment of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, approaching the International Space Station, passed by the ISS at 07:18 Moscow time at a distance of over 5 km. There are no obstacles to the flight of the station," the state corporation said.
Roscosmos also noted that the crew of the Russian segment of the ISS, consisting of cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as specialists from the TsNIIMash Mission Control Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) in Korolev, near Moscow, are planning to undock the ISS and the Progress MS-17 transport cargo ship on Thursday and to dock with the Progress M-UM spacecraft with the Berth node module.
Currently, Expedition 66 is working on board the ISS, consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov (station commander) and Peter Dubrov, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hai, as well as the crew of the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft - the Crew-3 mission consisting of Raj Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Matthias Maurer.
