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Space station commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Clay Anderson  aboard the International Space Station  will jettison more than 726 kg of obsolete gear  to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
The discarded equipment is expected to remain in space for at least 300 days before friction from atmosphere drags them down.
A camera stand is expected to burn up completely, but a refrigerator-sized cooling system, weighing 17.5 kg,  could survive re-entry.
NASA said that while the debris is most likely to land in an ocean, there is about a 1 in 5,000 chance it will hit a populated area.
Tracking radars will follow the objects until they are about two hours away from atmospheric re-entry. Warnings would be issued if the debris seems likely to pose a threat.

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NASA 'agonised' before deciding to jettison unneeded hardware pieces
NASA says it has little choice but to jettison two pieces of junk hardware including a 1,400-pound container filled with ammonia coolant from the international space station early next week.
Some fragments will likely survive a fiery re-entry through the atmosphere and strike the ground, the space agency said Wednesday. The six- to seven-hour spacewalk by NASA's Clay Anderson and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, in which the container and a 21smile.gifound brace for a communications antenna will be discarded, is scheduled to start at 5:30 a.m. CDT Monday.

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A new Oxygen Generating System (OGS) was successfully switched on  inside the US Destiny module aboard  the International Space Station (ISS), by expedition 15 crewmember Clay Anderson.
The new module  doubles the amount  of oxygen that can be produced.

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NASA has scheduled U.S. astronaut Clayton Anderson and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin's  to carry out the next spacewalk  on July 23.

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There will be no ticker-tape parade for the latest arrivals home from the International Space Station (ISS), but thats no indication of the warm welcome they received from scientists at Simon Fraser University this week.
Back home after six months in space are the descendants of 1,000 microscopic worms, C. elegans, who arrived at the ISS on Dec. 9. The worms, whose life span is only two to three weeks, have spawned 25 generations worth of progeny since then, making it the largest number of generations of an animal studied in space over the longest period of time.

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NASA Looking to Share Space in Orbital Station


If all goes as planned, part of the international space station will host research experiments from outsiders after it is completed in three years, NASA officials said.
NASA is in talks with several government agencies, most notably the National Institutes of Health, and private businesses that want to conduct research in the microgravity laboratory orbiting 354 kilometres above Earth.
NASA and its 15 partner nations, including Russia,Canada, Japan and European countries, plan to finish construction of the space station in 2010, when the US space shuttles are grounded and NASA focuses its manned spaceflight programme on returning to the moon in an Orion spacecraft.

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Astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) have carried out an unscheduled fourth spacewalk to finish tasks left over from their last outing.
Patrick Forrester and Steven Swanson set up a rotating joint allowing solar wings to track the Sun to provide power for the station.
Meanwhile computer processors which had crashed were repaired.

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ISS configuration following STS-116
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A view of the International Space Station (ISS) following the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission during which the P5 truss section was added, the Station's electrical supply was rewired and the P6 solar array was retracted. This image was taken shortly after Space Shuttle Discovery undocked at 23:10 CET (22:10 UT) on 19 December 2006.
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Relief on board the International Space Station after some days of worry, an ESA and European industry team of experts is working closely with NASA and Russian partners to help overcome the computer problems that have been affecting the International Space Station over the last few days.
 The computers were supplied by ESA to our Russian partners in return for Russian docking systems to be used with ESAs Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), a supply craft for the International Space Station (ISS), slated for launch early in January next year.

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