Space gets its second woman resident
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June 19, 2010, Saturday
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THE International Space Station received three new residents with Thursday's arrival of a Russian capsule, doubling the size of its female crew.
NASA, meanwhile, was keeping close watch on three pieces of space junk that could come uncomfortably close to the orbiting outpost this weekend. They are old Russian and Chinese satellite and rocket parts.
The Soyuz spacecraft docked at the orbiting outpost as the vessels zoomed 350 kilometers above the Atlantic near Argentina.
It's NASA's method of getting United States astronauts to and from the space station for lengthy missions, and will become the only means of getting people there once the shuttles stop flying late this year or next.
There are now two women living full time at the space station for the first time.
Shannon Walker, a physicist from Houston, joins Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a California-born chemist on board the space station since April. Walker took Amelia Earhart's watch into orbit.
NASA wants to re-evaluate the orbit of the space station before deciding whether to move the outpost away from the three pieces of worrisome space junk.
NASA, meanwhile, was keeping close watch on three pieces of space junk that could come uncomfortably close to the orbiting outpost this weekend. They are old Russian and Chinese satellite and rocket parts.
The Soyuz spacecraft docked at the orbiting outpost as the vessels zoomed 350 kilometers above the Atlantic near Argentina.
It's NASA's method of getting United States astronauts to and from the space station for lengthy missions, and will become the only means of getting people there once the shuttles stop flying late this year or next.
There are now two women living full time at the space station for the first time.
Shannon Walker, a physicist from Houston, joins Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a California-born chemist on board the space station since April. Walker took Amelia Earhart's watch into orbit.
NASA wants to re-evaluate the orbit of the space station before deciding whether to move the outpost away from the three pieces of worrisome space junk.
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