Friday, April 27, 2007

Astronaut on earlier flight home

Astronaut to catch early flight home (AP)

The tail and robot arm of shuttle Discovery with the Earth at the background are seen in this view from a television camera mounted in the orbiter's payload bay in this July 27, 2005 file photo. A Chinese anti-satellite test in January increased the risk that a spacecraft could collide with debris by up to 40 percent in some orbits, the U.S. Air Force Space Command said on Wednesday.AP - NASA managers decided Thursday to bring U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams back to Earth on an earlier shuttle flight than planned so she doesn't spend more than six months in the cosmos.


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