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International Space Station: Cygnus spacecraft successfully released (VIDEO)

Houston, USA - It will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere today

The Canadarm2 released Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus commercial craft at 11:31 am GMT/UTC on Tuesday 22 October 2013, after three weeks at the International Space Station. Flight Engineers Luca Parmitano and Karen Nyberg were at the controls of the robotics workstation removing Cygnus from the Harmony node then safely releasing it. Parmitano and Flight Engineer Mike Hopkins closed the hatches and depressurized C...

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Rome, Italy, 10/23/2013 13:47
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