It is not safe in Space – ISS escapes colliding with a 1993 Kosmos satellite

The six astronauts in the International Space Station ISS had a miraculous escape when it managed to take evasive action and dodge a big chunk of space debris from a 1993 Kosmos Russian defunct satellite news.sky.com. As per reports, the chunk of debris came to as close to 320-meters of the ISS.

This wreckage had collided with another satellite five years ago.
Mission Control has confirmed that this sidestep action would not affect the planned launch of supplies by a commercial company namely Orbital Sciences Corp's rocket launch from Wallops Island, Virginia.

This activity had to be abandoned because a boat had ventured into a restricted zone within 10 minutes of take-off. Incidentally, the unmanned Cygnus capsule is carrying nearly 2,200-Kg of supplies and materials for space experiments and the research cargo bound for the ISS has in its inventory assorted materials to investigate situations like how to stop headaches in space, measure the rate of pea-shoot growth, and how milk spoils in micro-gravity.