NASA says India has threatened the International Space Station and the astronauts on board by shooting down a satellite with a missile.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the satellite shattered into small pieces of space junk that posed an "unacceptable" threat to astronauts and called it a "terrible, terrible thing."
India said that it deliberately chose to destroy a satellite in low orbit with the goal of keeping the debris from harming the station or other satellites and that the debris would fall back to Earth and disintegrate.
But Bridenstine said pieces were moving above the station and "that kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight."