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Stories about: thrash

Space Cleanup Solutions Required The human-generated thrash that's been increasingly filling the orbit of the Earth for decades now turns more and more into a serious problem. Since it is already past the phase of saying a lot about us as a race, something must be done before spacecraft and satellites are actually affected by it. Thus, proper i... 25 November 2008 10:23 GMT Watch Out for Space Station Garbage More than one year ago, on July 23rd, 2007, NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson, a flight engineer on Expedition 15, tossed away into space a large piece of junk. During a spacewalk mission, with the help of the station's robotic arm built in Canada, he disposed of a useless tank, previously filled with ammonia cool... 3 November 2008 10:02 GMT