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Reuters QuickCut: Dumping in space

July 24, 2007

A spacewalking NASA astronaut pitches two large pieces of obsolete equipment off the International Space Station and into orbit. A 1,400-pound (630-kg), refrigerator-sized reservoir that contains ammonia was cast overboard during a spacewalk by station flight engineer Clay Anderson and his commander, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin. Anderson also tossed away a 212-pound (96 kg)...