HOUSTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. and Russian crew of the international space station reported a brief unexpected metallic crunching noise Wednesday outside the outpost.
Astronaut Mike Foale told NASA's Mission Control the noise sounded as if something had struck the aft end of the Russian module that houses the crew's sleeping quarters, kitchen and lavoratory, the Houston Chronicle reported in a copyright story.
Both U.S. and Russian ground-based experts could find no evidence of penetration of the station's airtight hull or the cooling system for the electronic equipment that is responsible for many of the operations.
"All systems are intact," said NASA's Rob Navias, a space station program spokesman. "All of the data from the U.S. and Russian sides shows nothing out of the ordinary."
