ISS Astronauts Press On With High-Stakes Solar Panel Project

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Astronauts plowed ahead Monday with the mammoth job of moving a 17 1/2-ton beam on the international space station, a task made even more crucial following the discovery of debris in an important part of the orbiting lab's power system. A spacewalking astronaut on Sunday found metal shavings inside a joint that is needed to turn a set of solar power panels.

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It always humors me when they list the weight of the object....
It is weightless in space. It still has mass and momentum (if you get it moving), but you can "lift" (whole 'nother subject!) an AWFUL lot in the weightlessness of space!