The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, Nasa officials said. The Russian module Nauka docking to the International Space Station a few hours before the mishap. Photo: AFP / Russian space agency Roscosmos The seven crew members aboard - two Russian cosmonauts, three Nasa astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and a European space agency astronaut from France - were never in any immediate danger, according to Nasa and Russian state-owned news agency RIA.