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it will take "about 28.5 hours for the spacecraft to autonomously dock to the space station at 11:30 p.m. EDT Saturday, March 15, while traveling 17,000 mph orbiting the Earth." Once the crew ...

Lucky for us, we are not in space. We are on Earth ... it could cause an explosion equal to more than 1,000 megatons of TNT, or tens to hundreds of nuclear weapons - not enough to wipe out ...

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