SIX astronauts were forced to take refuge aboard the International Space Station’s “lifeboat” crafts yesterday, bracing for the threat of a collision with floating space debris, the Russian space agency, Roskosmos, said in a statement.

A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted off from Kazakhstan today for the international space station.

A SHEPHERD is suing Russia’s space agency for compensation after he said a 3-metre-long chunk of metal from a space rocket fell into his yard, just missing his outdoor toilet.

US entrepreneur Charles Simonyi has a brand new suit, and it comes with a pretty sweet ride.