Discovery Prepares for Return

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."

Comments

Implements of destruction

[wowbagger]

"... 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."

Re:Risk your life for Garbage??

[AC-x]

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