Astronaut tosses junk from space station
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A spacewalking astronaut did some massive housecleaning at the international space station Monday, tossing out a camera mounting and an ammonia tank weighing more than half a ton. The outdated equipment was no longer needed and joined more than 9,000 pieces of orbital debris already being tracked from Earth.
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By MARCIA DUNN    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- There's no space in the space station...
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The Russian commander of the  International Space Station and a NASA flight engineer floated  out of the station's airlock on Monday to dump overboard some  obsolete equipment and prepare the outpost for future assembly  missions.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - There's no space in the space station...
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Spacewalking astronauts  coaxed a balky solar wing panel on the International Space  Station into its storage box on Monday, capping a tedious but  ultimately successful mission by the shuttle Discovery crew.
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Scientists are sweeping, vacuuming and picking at the mangled wreckage recovered from the Genesis spacecraft that crashed into the Utah desert on Wednesday.
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An unmanned Russian cargo spaceship brought much needed food to a Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut living on the international space station orbiting earth.
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Two astronauts unhooked a 35,000-pound girder from the international space station today.
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NASA ground controllers tried to free a  jammed solar panel on the International Space Station on  Friday, while astronauts prepared for a final spacewalk to  rewire the outpost's power grid.
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Leaving the international space station unattended while they stepped outside, the two crewmen hooked up a robotic arm Wednesday and found some kind of gunk on the spacecraft's vents that might explain the frequent breakdowns in its air-supply equipment.
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HOUSTON - NASA engineers are studying the potentially serious contamination of a vital joint used to turn solar arrays aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after a spacewalking astronaut collected samples of the grit on Sunday.
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MOSCOW  - A Russian cargo ship blasted off early Thursday carrying badly needed food and equipment for the international space station, where supplies for the two crew members have dwindled to critical levels, Russian news agencies reported.
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American astronaut Michael Fincke speaks at a news conference in Star City near Moscow, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004. The newly-returned crew of the International Space Station said Monday that they accomplished
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(National-NBC) Oct. 1, 2004 - Scientists in Utah are finishing the job of salvaging material from the remains of the Genesis Space Capsule.
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By Mike Schneider  A spacewalker manually shaking a stubborn solar array has managed to free two stuck grommets Saturday, but a third problem grommet is still stuck.
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Two astronauts ventured outside the international space station Monday to rid it of some large pieces of junk.
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MOSCOW - A Russian cargo ship blasted off early Thursday carrying badly needed food and equipment for the international space station, where supplies for the two crew members have dwindled to critical levels, Russian news agencies reported.