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Four women were at the space station in April, but only for 1 1/2 weeks. Three of them were brief shuttle visitors. NASA wants to re-evaluate the orbit of the space station Friday -- taking into account any changes as a result of the Soyuz docking
-- before deciding whether to move the outpost away from three pieces of worrisome space junk. Mission managers decided there was no need to dodge a fourth piece of junk, which was expected to pass the station at a safe distance early Friday. That, too, was a chunk of an old Russian satellite. Arriving with Walker was American Douglas Wheelock and Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin, both of whom visited the space station before. Walker is making her first spaceflight ever; she is married to NASA astronaut Andrew Thomas. Her mother, Sherry Walker, watched the docking from Russia's Mission Control. "I can see the big grin on your face," Sherry Walker radioed, "so I know you're having a good time." ___ Online: NASA:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/
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