By Tariq Malik
Managing Editor
posted: 04 September 2009
11:18 am ET
This story was updated at 11:49 a.m. EDT.
The derelict remains of an old European rocket zipped close by the
International Space Station and shuttle Discovery Friday, but not close
enough to pose a risk to the spacecraft or their astronaut crews.
At its closest approach, the space trash was less than a mile (1.3 km) from
the space station - about a mile closer than previously reported - as it
passed from left to right ahead of
