Curiosity with "UFO" on the ISS


US astronaut Christopher Cassidy was able to remove the video the Unknown flying object close to the International Space Station. However, later it turned out that it was a case that covered one of the antenna module "Zvezda».

Clip from "UFO" near the cargo ship "Progress", which made docking with the ISS appeared on the NASA channel on YouTube. Message about the discovery was immediately transferred to the mission control center. Soon specialists Roscosmos said that nothing unusual had happened. Next to the station "lit up" cover the antenna with the module "Zvezda". It is worth mentioning that this is one of the first segments of the space station.

We can say that Cassidy was present at the "birth" of space debris, which, incidentally, may pose a serious danger to the spacecraft. According to NBC News, currently cover is removed from the ISS, and soon he will burn in the atmosphere.

Representatives from NASA and the Russian Space Agency is not informed on what happened at the rank of department cover. Noted only that during a recent spacewalks, astronauts from Russia made the guard rail extending from the "Stars" to another module MIM-2 «Search».

Recall that a module "Zvezda" launched into orbit in 2000. This structural center of the Russian part of the International Space Station.