Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were briefly evacuated to a Russian escape spaceship on Thursday when a piece of space debris came too close.
NASA says the debris was an old motor that probably was once a part of the space station.
Astronauts Yury Lonchakov of Russia and Americans Michael Fincke and Sandra Magnus of the United States, were in the Soyuz spacecraft for about nine minutes before the debris passed.
The Russian space command says the were in no danger and had returned.
The debris was about 1cm long.