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NASA has called off a spacewalk because of menacing space junk.
Two U.S. astronauts were set to replace a bad antenna outside of the International Space Station on Tuesday. But late Monday night, Mission Control learned that a piece of orbiting debris might come dangerously close.
There wasn't enough time to assess the threat so station managers delayed the spacewalk for at least a few days.
"NASA received a debris notification for the space station," the ISS tweeted early Tuesday. "Due to the lack of opportunity to properly assess the risk it could post to the astronauts, teams have decided to delay the Nov. 20 spacewalk until more information is available."
NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron were scheduled to replace an S-band Antenna Subassembly (SASA) with a spare. The antenna helps transmit data from the space station to flight controllers on Earth.
The station and its crew of seven have been at increased risk from space junk since Russia destroyed a satellite in a missile test two weeks ago.