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pmMeAllofIt t1_je1z78b wrote

It's possible. Soyuz and other crafts arent shielded nearly as well as the rest of the ISS, which is heavily shielded. And they're constantly being bombarded with objects.

To put into perspective, the LDEF was put into orbit in 1984 and recovered in 1990. They found over 5000 large impacts and 30,000 small ones.

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