ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers on sheltering from space debris

Paris (ESA) Apr 23, 2021

Andre Kuipers is one of a handful of astronauts who has had to 'shelter-in-place' from a piece of marauding space debris. In 2012, a debris fragment was spotted heading towards the International Space Station. Its orbit was hard to predict but it looked like it could pass at a distance of approximately 10 kilometres: that meant code red. ESA astronaut Andre, along with his fellow pas