CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station has one less capsule and a lot less trash.

A
commercial cargo ship ended its five-week visit Tuesday morning. NASA
astronaut Michael Hopkins used the space station’s big robot arm to
release the capsule, called Cygnus.
Cygnus is filled with garbage and will burn up when it plunges through the atmosphere Wednesday.
Orbital
Sciences Corp. launched the capsule last month from Virginia under a
$1.9 billion contract with NASA. The Cygnus delivered 3,000 pounds of
goods, including belated Christmas gifts for the six-man crew and
hundreds of ants for a student experiment.
The ants are still aboard the space station. They’ll return to Earth aboard another company’s supply
ship, the SpaceX Dragon.
NASA is paying Orbital Sciences and SpaceX to keep the space station stocked.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station has one less capsule and a lot less trash.

A
commercial cargo ship ended its five-week visit Tuesday morning. NASA
astronaut Michael Hopkins used the space station’s big robot arm to
release the capsule, called Cygnus.
Cygnus is filled with garbage and will burn up when it plunges through the atmosphere Wednesday.
Orbital
Sciences Corp. launched the capsule last month from Virginia under a
$1.9 billion contract with NASA. The Cygnus delivered 3,000 pounds of
goods, including belated Christmas gifts for the six-man crew and
hundreds of ants for a student experiment.
The ants are still aboard the space station. They’ll return to Earth aboard another company’s supply
ship, the SpaceX Dragon.
NASA is paying Orbital Sciences and SpaceX to keep the space station stocked.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.