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Discovery Prepares for Return

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the major-tom-to-ground-control dept.

Kailash Nadh writes "Discovery's astronauts packed up their stuff on Friday as they prepared to undock from the international space station now that NASA has cleared the shuttle to return to Earth next week. Their most difficult task before leaving the station was the maneuvering of a huge cargo container filled with 2 1/2 years worth of trash into the shuttle's payload bay. Once back on Earth, the items would either be disposed of or returned to researchers."

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  1. Implements of destruction by wowbagger · · Score: 4, Funny

    "... So we went out there with our shovels and rakes and implements of destruction, and we loaded all that trash into the back of a Boeing orbiter, went back inside the space station, and had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat."

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  2. Re:Risk your life for Garbage?? by AC-x · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well they're going home anyway, it's not like they're doing the trip just to take the rubbish back

    It's probably useful to know what happens when you keep rubbish in space for several years anyway

  3. Oh boy, here we go by p3d0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Prepare for the flood of "why don't they just drop the garbage into the atmosphere and let it burn up" questions.

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  4. A better crew for this job by murderlegendre · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next time, get ahold of Richard Benjamin, Tim Thomerson, Richard Kelton, Tricia Barnstable, Cyb Barnstable and Conrad Janis.

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