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11.23.09

Discovery Swerves To Avoid Orbiting Space Junk

By Clay Dillow Posted 09.10.2009 at 1:49 pm 7 Comments

The space shuttle Discovery just can’t catch a break. Astronauts aboard the orbiting craft, which is scheduled to land back on Earth later today, fired the engines around noon EDT today to dodge a piece of space junk creeping into its orbit, marking the third piece of orbiting detritus to enter the shuttle’s neighborhood during this mission.

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