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[b]Space debris no threat to station crew[/b] Flight director Brian Smith called off planning to shelter the Expedition 30 crew in their Soyuz spacecraft after flight controllers evaluated tracking data on the Fengyun 1C satellite debris and concluded it poses no threat to the International Space Station. Consideration was given for sheltering the crew in their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft after initial tracking information indicated a high probability of the debris colliding with the station. But further tracking data confirmed that the debris poses no threat to the station or the crew. Commander Dan Burbank and flight engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, who were informed Tuesday of the possibility they would have to shelter in their Soyuz craft, were told when they woke up around midnight CST Wednesday that no such sheltering was required.
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