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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- There's no space in the space station.

So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk, like so many old hubcaps for the trash heap.

Only this stuff floated away in space.

And the throwing-away -- done during a recent spacewalk -- was done cautiously so that the discarded antenna covers and expired pump panel didn't become deadly boomerangs.

Such is life in space, post-Columbia.

With no garbage pickup by shuttles for nearly two years, the international space station is looking more and more like a cluttered attic.
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Now there's a need for a pod that could be jettisoned for a splash return to earth.