Space station gets 17 debris barriers
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Two Russian cosmonauts climbed out of the International Space Station on Wednesday to install panels designed to shield the orbiting outpost from space debris.
Space debris includes objects such as discarded rocket parts, planetary dust and rocks.
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