Satellites collide near International Space Station above Siberia

Two satellites have collided in outerspace just 500 miles above Siberia. This is evidently the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit. The collision also posing a slight risk to the international space station.

"We knew this was going to happen eventually," said Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA seems to think that the risk to the astronauts and the space station is low, and it won't likely slow down a planned to launch seven new astronauts later this month.

The collision involved an Iridium commercial satellite, which was launched in 1997, and a Russian satellite launched in 1993 and believed to be nonfunctioning. The Russian satellite was out of control, according to the Associated Press .

The Iridium craft weighed 1,235 pounds, and the Russian craft nearly a ton.

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