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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A snagged cable forced Atlantis’ astronauts to resort to a more inconvenient and less comprehensive method of inspecting their space shuttle Saturday as they sped toward a weekend rendezvous with the international space station.
Mission Control decided there was no need to move the space station away from a piece of space junk.
Experts had monitored the orbiting debris for a couple of days, projecting it to pass within 6 miles of the shuttle and space station shortly after today’s docking. In the end, flight controllers concluded the unidentified object would remain at a safe distance.
