After extending her cumulative days in orbit to 695 — more than any other American in space exploration history — Iowa native ...

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It’s sort of Google Earth but with the details focused on low-earth orbit. You can fly around the planet and watch the satellites whiz by or even pick out the hundreds of spent upper-stage ...

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