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  • The International Space Station (NASA via Associated Press)

    International Space Station to move to avoid debris

    The Russian space program's Mission Control Center says it will move the International Space Station into a different orbit to avoid possible collision with a fragment of debris.


  • Space station in no need to move to avoid debris

    Russia's Mission Control Center said Wednesday it dropped an earlier plan to move the International Space Station into a different orbit to avoid possible collision with space debris after additional calculations showed that there was no such threat.


  • Space station to move to avoid debris

    The Russian space program's Mission Control Center says it will move the International Space Station into a different orbit to avoid possible collision with a fragment of debris.


  • Applause, but no tears in Mission Control at end

    There was no crying in Mission Control.


  • Last space shuttle aims for Thursday landing

    On the eve of NASA's historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making the final journey and the flight controllers who will guide them home said Wednesday they're starting to feel a rush of emotions.


  • The space shuttle Atlantis passes under a solar panel on the International Space Station after undocking on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. (AP Photo/NASA)

    Shuttle leaves space station for last time

    A space shuttle left the International Space Station for the very last time Tuesday, heading home to end the 30-year run of a vessel that kept U.S. astronauts flying to and from orbit longer than any other rocketship.


  • Space shuttle leaves space station for last time

    A space shuttle left the International Space Station for the very last time Tuesday, heading home to end the 30-year run of a vessel that kept U.S. astronauts flying to and from orbit longer than any other rocketship.


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