太空垃圾成隱患，宇航員進救生艙緊急避難

The crew members were scrambled into escape capsules ready to fire off for an emergency return to Earth after Nasa officials spotted a piece of space junk hurtling towards the path of the ISS.
在美國國家航天局發現一塊太空垃圾正在飛向國際空間站的軌道上之後，今天國際空間站的成員們緊急撤離到了逃生艙，隨時準備緊急返回地球。

The remnants of a discarded Russian satellite were picked up too late to manoeuvre the space station into a safer orbit.
這個俄羅斯廢棄衛星的殘骸被回收得不夠及時，以至於國際空間站已經沒有時間來調整進入一個安全軌道。

Instead, the three Russian, two American and Dutch astronaut were ordered by ground control to take shelter in the emergency Soyuz spacecraft early today.
取而代之的方案是今晨三名俄羅斯宇航員，兩民美國宇航員和一名荷蘭宇航員接到地面控制中心的命令，立即前往逃生艙Soyuz做躲避。

The debris eventually passed the ISS within an estimated nine ough nine miles sounds like a long distance on Earth, but in space where both the station and the junk were travelling at 17,500 miles an hour in orbit, nobody was taking any chances.
最終這一塊太空廢物在預計的距離空間站9公里之外的軌道與空間站擦肩而過。雖然9公里可能聽起來是一個很長的距離，但是在太空中像空間站和太空廢物這一類物體都以17500公里每小時的速度在軌道中運動，沒人可以承擔任何風險。

The incident highlighted growing concerns about a collision in space as a growing volume of such junk, mainly from old satellites, swirls around the planet.
這起事件讓人們對於類似於廢棄衛星和宇宙飛船渦輪等太空垃圾撞擊正常設備的擔憂加重了幾分。

Nasa says it is actively tracking some 22,000 pieces of space debris, but there are millions of objects left over from decades of space travel drifting in Earth's orbit.
美國國家航天局表示他們正密切追蹤2.2萬個太空垃圾，但是在過去的幾十年裏，人類在地球軌道中遺留了成千上萬的物體。