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Astronauts Remove Nearly Two Tons of Garbage from Space Station
August 20, 2001
1 Min Read
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- Astronauts removed a bin containing 3,700 pounds of empty food containers, dirty clothes, packing foam and discarded equipment from the international space station on Sunday, Aug. 19, and placed it aboard space shuttle Discovery to bring back to Earth.
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