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    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.

  • Russian space officials watch video footage of researchers in space suits simulating a landing on Mars at the Mission Control Center in Korolyov, just outside Moscow, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. The international crew of researchers conducted a mock landing on Mars after 257 days of confinement in an isolated module to imitate a flight to the Red Planet. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

    Mock Mars mission simulates landing on Red Planet

    After 257 days in a locked, windowless steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters in heavy space suits Monday, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet.

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