manch twenty twelve four hundred kilometers above the earth s surface the crew aboard the i asked that suddenly receive. a red late conjunction something is on a possible collision course flight controllers standing by here in the middle of the refund to. separate from an old satellite is bearing down on the station mission control orders the crew to evacuate to a capsule that serves as an escape craft but then there. part of that sort of. the danger has passed this time a piece of the old cosmos two two five one a russian satellite missed the i assess by a few kilometers but the space station s crews strangers to close calls like this its windows and exterior walls bear the scars of less life threatening encounters space might be vast and largely empty but in our cosmic neighborhood it s clogging