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...piece of junk trailing the shuttle, and several others seen floating by the shuttle's windows, might never be definitively identified. Astronauts described the objects variously as a plastic baggie, some copper wire, two ring-shaped items and a piece of foil or shimmering cloth. NASA is guessing the largest bit was a piece of pliable plastic used as a tile shim, which could have dropped off the shuttle during a test firing of the shuttle's maneuvering jets...
...NASA officials say similar space junk has probably followed previous shuttles home, unnoticed and unscrutinized. But on a mission whose departure was beset by a fuel cell malfunction, a lightning strike on the launch pad and an approaching hurricane, the delay caused by the debris threatened to mar what has otherwise been a successful mission. After a four-year delay following the destruction of Space Shuttle Columbia, astronauts have finally resumed the construction of the International Space Station, installing 35,000 pounds of solar arrays and trusses. Fourteen more missions are needed to finish the job by 2010, when...
...tedium and detail," says Elliot Pulham, CEO of the Space Foundation. "There's a lot of tedium and detail in this and I think we're just seeing a lot more of it than we have in the past." With tens of millions of bits of space junk orbiting Earth - including 11,000 larger than 10 centimeters in size - more such encounters with the shuttle are hardly out of the question. Occasionally in the past, the shuttle has had to dodge a significant piece heading its way. Although most of the junk eventually burns up in the atmosphere, an average...
...Crimson last year. “In some years, however, it may not be feasible for these donors to give to all of the charities that are meaningful to them.” And in the Internet age, fundraisers’ attempts to reach alumni are occasionally foiled by junk e-mail filters and unlisted cell phone numbers. Other colleges face a similar predicament; the average participation rate across institutions of higher education has also declined for the last five years. It stood at 12.4 percent, far below Harvard’s rate, in 2005, the most recent year...
Obsessive celeb watchers can already buy Heidi Klum's diaper bag and Shaq's car stereo. So we guess it was just a matter of time before more prosaic star acquisitions--like produce and junk food--became public. The online supermarket Fresh Direct is posting the shopping lists of some of its famous customers, including director SPIKE LEE (Lactaid milk, Pringles, Granny Smith apples), Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon (truffle oil, Pop-Tarts, swordfish steaks) and model Paulina Porizkova (rotisserie chicken, Milano cookies, Jarlsberg cheese). The lists are not comprehensive; no toiletries, alas. Plus, the site does...