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    • WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (AFP) Oct 30, 2007
     At least one panel on a solar antenna on the International Space Station was damaged on Tuesday as it was repositioned by astronauts, images carried live on NASA television showed.

    One of 31 panels on the solar antenna was partially torn during the redeployment of the device after astronauts earlier installed a massive truss to the orbiting space station during a space walk lasting seven hours and eight minutes.




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