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12-01-2003, 12:57 AM
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NASA: Debris didn't cause sound heard on space station
 The Associated Press Web Posted : 11/29/2003 5:48 AM The crunching sound heard by the U.S.-Russian crew of the international space station this week does not appear to have come from an impact with space debris, a NASA spokesman said. The U.S. Department of Defense, which tracks thousands of small manmade objects in orbital space with radar, found nothing on a collision course with the base, space agency spokesman James Hartsfield said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Friday it still did not know what caused the sound heard early Wednesday by U.S. astronaut Michael Foale and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri. There was no sign of damage to the space station, Hartsfield told the Houston Chronicle for a Saturday story. Yuri Malenchenko, the station's previous commander, told Foale and Kaleri on Friday that he heard similar noises while he lived and worked aboard the outpost. His 185-day mission with American Ed Lu came to an end in late October. "That sound was somewhat odd, unusual for that location. We never heard it before," Foale told Russia's Mission Control on Friday. "I don't think it was anything. It was a sound, but nothing happened after that. I think everything is OK." |
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