SpaceX Dragon rocket's 'near miss' with space junk as astronauts told to brace for crash
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mirror.co.ukFootage of the moment a piece of space junk narrowly missed four astronauts on board the SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule has emerged.
The spacecraft spectacularly docked at the station on Saturday, nearly 24 hours after its departure from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
But the NASA Crew-2 mission had a moment of suspense on Friday as the spacecraft escaped being missed by a piece of debris, known as conjunction, by a whisker.
The four astronauts on board were about to go to sleep after a long day of outer space travel when the encounter happened at about 1:43 p.m.
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