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And the first one for tonight is the Chinese astronauts that were in space orbiting debris. And I thought this was fitting to the dimension at the beginning of the night about space debris. And this gives an idea of what's actually presenting dangers in space for astronauts. There were three astronauts and they're stranded, temporary, they're stranded temporarily. When their return capsule was struck by a piece of space junk, and it was just a couple of hours before they were scheduled to depart. And right now there's no definite indication of just how much damage was incurred. The three astronauts, they've been living on the China space station since April 24th, they were due to return to Earth November 5th after a handoff mission with a crew that will arrive back in October, October 31st. And China's manned space agency, CMSA, they put out a statement that the astronauts' return has been postponed temporarily. In the statement they said that the crew's return capsule has been hit by a small piece of space debris and impact analysis and risk assessments were around. And there's no further details provided after that. The craft is likely still docked to the space station. The station is made up of three detachable sections. There's the crew living spaces, parachute assisted return module, and the power and propulsion module.