SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Two spacewalkers installed a camera on the outside of the international space station Monday and tossed overboard a surplus data-collecting device, sending it spinning off into the void like a spiraling football.
"How's that for a Hail Mary pass?" American astronaut William McArthur Jr. radioed.
"That was pretty impressive," Mission Control responded.
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11.08.2005
In space, no one can...catch your touchdown pass?
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