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Recovered Astronaut Steps Up for Spacewalk

Illness over, German astronaut readies for spacewalk

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 13, 2008 4:00 AM CST

(Newser) – A German astronaut who was too sick for a scheduled spacewalk earlier this week is feeling much better, and preparing for his first step into the great outdoors today, reports Space.com. "I'm doing very fine," Hans Schlegel, 56, said via videolink from...   Read full story »

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