A piece of a European Ariane 5 rocket, launched three years ago and still circling the earth in a long elliptical orbit, is expected to pass within about two miles of the shuttle, currently docked with the International Space Station, at 11:06 a.m. EDT on Friday. NASA considered having the astronauts fire the shuttle's thrusters today to give them some extra breathing room, but that's a complicated maneuver, and Houston decided to skip it.
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