The wrong stuff: junk in space station
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So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk, like so many old hubcaps for the trash heap. And the throwing-away -- done
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There are literally tons of man-made debris orbiting the Earth, from rocket parts to dead satellites to human waste dumped by space station crews. Then there's the stuff that spacewalking astronauts have simply lost out there.
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a little better   protected against impact by stray particles today after two Russian cosmonauts installed debris shielding to the station during a 5 hour, 25 minute spacewalk.
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2nd LD Writethru: International space station's faulty computers all back online    WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The six faulty computers at the International Space Station's (ISS) Russian segment has been all restored on Saturday, according to a top NASA official.
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The crew of the International Space Station is expecting a visitor on Christmas Day, but it wonât be Santa Claus. Instead, it will be the cargo ship, the ISS Progress 16, carrying 2.5 tons of goodies and supplies to the Space Station.
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By Matt Wixon, The Dallas Morning News  Jun. 25--When the international space station had a computer meltdown  earlier this month, the news made it to Earth quickly.
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Since the loss of the Columbia space shuttle, Russia has ferried all crews and cargoes on its smaller space craft. Costing around $22 million each to construct and launch, unmanned Progress freighters carry supplies.
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There's nothing routine about working in space, as astronaut Mike Fincke found out recently when he did some soldering onboard the International Space Station.    Science@NASA -- Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center, watched his video monitor in disbelief...
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By CAMILLE BAINS VANCOUVER (CP) - About 100,000 worms, each smaller than the width of a grain of salt, will be making their way back from space next week as part of a six-month experiment aboard the International Space Station.
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HOUSTON - Two spacewalking astronauts helped pry a massive solar power tower from its perch atop the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday and discovered odd metal shavings in a large joint that turns the orbital lab's starboard solar arrays.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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Spacewalking astronauts doing construction work outside the international space station Sunday made a disturbing discovery: what appear to be metal shavings inside a joint that is needed to turn a set of solar power panels.
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Astronauts working on the International   Space Station had troubles on Wednesday familiar to any   backyard mechanic on Earth -- a lost bolt and a broken tool.
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Spill a little wasabi at home and, well, it's messy. Spill some in the weightlessness of the international space station and you're looking at a major cleanup job. By the Associated Press.
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Russian and U.S. space scientists reported multiple computer problems late Wednesday and early Thursday aboard the International Space Station.  Russian controllers in Moscow reported navigation computers in the Russian section of the space station malfunctioned.
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Two Russian computers on board the International Space Station are still not working properly, and officials are still trying to to figure out what's wrong and how to fix the  problem.
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Russian cosmonauts and engineers may have corrected a problem that caused computers aboard the International Space Station to crash.