ISS Crew Jettisons Junk, Sets Up For Dockings

Earthbound radar operators will spend the next 300+ days tracking a 1,400-lb. ammonia reservoir the size of a refrigerator after spacewalkers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Clay Anderson heaved it away from the ISS July 23. With Expedition 15 flight engineer Oleg Kotov at the controls of the station’s...

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