And in 2012 the crew of the space station were ordered into escape capsules as a precaution after a piece of debris passed close by.

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One of the enduring mysteries of the Solar System is how the ordered network of planets orbiting the Sun spontaneously emerged form the chaos of space.

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The council's executive board has ordered a feasibility study which will investigate the costs of reconfiguring and redeveloping the space.

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The device inside the Hubble that transmits data from space to earth wasn't working, so a new part had to be ordered and astronauts needed to be trained to install it.

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