ISS astronauts scramble to safety after Russian weapons test

Seven astronauts on board the International Space Station, including two Russians, have taken shelter after a Russian weapons test blew up the country's own satellite and created potentially dangerous space debris. Jonathan Vigliotti has more.

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[yedi]

Straight up out of the movie “Gravity” 😂

[justinchesley]

hmmmm i feel there is a lot we dont know seems pricy just to test a missle

[Trout]

Uh, combined speeds would be an impact at something in the tens of thousands mph.
There is no "shelter" for that.

[ClitRinger]

If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a blown up satellite

[DeathBringer]

According to Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the plot of the movie Gravity is actually realistic. You could easily have a runaway cascade scenario of satellite debris crashing into each other, taking out one after another, including the Space Station itself. What were they thinking?! All that risk just to test a friggin' anti-satellite space missile? C'mon.

[Redawesomeoby]

This the reason you don't blow up satellites

[aliengranpa]

I usually don't have a problem with other countries, we all live on the same planet...but what were they thinking??

[loriann]

Someone needs to clean up their space junk.

[AuDive]

This is a beginning of a DOMINO effect.

[justjohnny]

why have we heard NOTHING since last night??

[SuperlativeCG]

As more space debris begins to orbit our planet at increasingly faster speeds, we are unwittingly defending ourselves against alien invasion. We've created a primitive, yet effective force field.

[strawhatwolffy]

Stay safe 🙏🏼. But please grow some balls and yell at Russia 💪.

[notatrollbutanorceacenato]

In service with the United States is the ship-based missile defense system Aegis. The RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) rocket, which is part of it, has the ability to hit satellites, which was demonstrated in practice on February 21, 2008, when the SM-3 rocket successfully hit the US military satellite USA-193, which went off-design low orbit

[micckae]

All you Americans opening your big mouths, America did the same thing 12 years ago. Nobody said anything

[b.visconti]

Oops..better theirs than ours! Hope everyone is ok..🙏

[waterbaqua]

Scramble is a poor choice of words when everything is slow motion...no footage, so this is some real fake falsely true news 📰🗞️

[Letsgo]

No one was hurt? Seems like no need to freak.

[DWErickson]

HMMM I have too wonder since Russia has started their own space station! Could this be an attempt to take out the international space station?

[patbateman]

Where's Space Force when you need 'em?

[hamzamujeebk]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Biggest lie ever. Existence of ISS