International Space Station reports scare after engine trouble with new Russian module

Russia’s Nauka space module caused a scare on the International Space Station Thursday after its engines inexplicably lit up the hours after it docked in orbit.

The “unplanned restart” of the module’s engines inadvertently moved the entire ISS out of position for 47 minutes, according to NASA. During a livestream of the event, Mission Control in Houston said that NASA had “temporarily lost orientation control as the result of inadvertent thrust firings” and that the error had knocked the station of alignment by “about 45 degrees.”