Ground Control to ... Stuffed Spacesuit?
From Times Wire Reports
The crew of the International Space Station shoved a spacesuit stuffed with unwanted clothing and radio equipment out the door, creating a ghostly scene that resembled a cosmonaut tumbling away from the orbiting outpost, space agency officials said at Cape Canaveral.
The Russian suit was equipped with a radio transmitter that was supposed to broadcast recorded messages in six languages, but the transmitter stopped operating after two orbits, NASA officials said.
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