Shuttle snares Japan's free-flyer, supports first of two EVAs

Crewmen aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour practiced Space Station assembly early yesterday, after collecting Japan's Space Flyer Unit (SFU) from orbit Saturday and deploying a NASA free-flyer designed to study spacecraft contamination and other phenomena during a two-day sojourn in orbit...

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