Riskiest job in space and more top science stories this week – News-Daily.com

Try to imagine for a moment, if you will, what it must be like to walk in space.
After suiting up, you step outside the airlock. The International Space Station, nearly the length of an American football field, dwarfs you. Its exterior will be your workspace for the next six-and-a-half hours.
Planet Earth appears before you in its entirety, glowing against the dark vastness. Stars with names like 342843 Davidbowie and 3834 Zappafrank glint all around you; you’re in good company.
Surrounded by the…

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