ISS crew tests free-flying microsat

U.S. Astronaut Jeff Williams, flight engineer on Expedition 13 to the International Space Station, may eventually get to use a laptop controller for some manual "flight" of the first of three microsat test beds to reach the station. But for now, MIT engineers are evaluating the results of the first...

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