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NASA on July 29, 2021, announced a brief but apparently minor mishap involving the International Space Station (ISS), in which a Russian science vessel's thrusters caused the orbiting laboratory to briefly spin out of control. The crew aboard the ISS was never in danger, NASA stated: Science and technology news site The Verge reported that NASA officials, during a news conference, stated that the space station had shifted as much as 45 degrees during the incident: Seven crew members were aboard the ISS at the time, hailing from the U.S., Japan, and Russia. NASA said that following the mishap, the agency and Boeing elected to stand down on the scheduled launch of Starliner, an uncrewed capsule scheduled to take off on July 30. The Starliner launch was reset for August 3.
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