The International Space Station (ISS) maneuvered to avoid a piece of space junk, the U.S. space agency said Monday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the ISS needed to move away from part of an old satellite. The firing of on-board thrusters Sunday night pushed the orbiting laboratory 1 kilometer higher. Experts are unsure how big the junk is. It is from a Russian weather satellite launched in 1979. Mission Control in Cape Canaveral, Florida said the change in ISS altitude will not affect next week's launch from Kazakhstan of a new three-man crew. Meanwhile, a SpaceX resupply mission from Cape Canaveral has been delayed until the end of the month. The unmanned Falcon rocket was scheduled to launch Sunday.
