Endeavour snares satellite, but ice threatens mission
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata used the robot arm on the Space Shuttle Endeavour yesterday to recover a NASA free-flyer he had placed in orbit two days earlier, but an unusually severe ice buildup in a cooling system threatened to bring Endeavour's crew home a day early if it can't be fixed. Plans...
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