Space junk strands astronauts on space station

Chinese crew couldn't risk re-entry after capsule damaged by debris

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The return of three Chinese astronauts from the Tiangong space station had to be aborted on 5 November, when the spacecraft destined to return them to Earth was hit by space debris.

The China Manned Space Agency reported "tiny cracks" in a window of the Shenzhou-20 return capsule, making it unsafe for re-entry.