Washington DC (CNN) An unusual and potentially dangerous situation unfolded Thursday at the International Space Station, as the newly-docked Russian Nauka module inadvertently fired its thrusters causing a "tug of war" with the space station and briefly pushing it out of position, according to NASA flight controllers. Nauka — a long-delayed laboratory module that Russian space agency Roscosmos' launched to the International Space Station last week — inadvertently fired its thrusters after docking with the International Space Station Thursday morning. A joint investigation between NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos is now ongoing. Joel Montalbano, the head of NASA's International Space Station Program, insists the astronauts were never in danger and that they have not noticed any damage to the ISS. NASA's Mission Control in Houston, Texas, however, at one point asked them to look outside the windows of the space station to see if they could spot any debris or damage to the station.

Source: CNN July 29, 2021 22:01 UTC