It has been a busy time in outer space for the astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis and on the International Space Station.

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During the two-and-a-half hour moon walk, the astronauts frolicked in the weightlessness of outer space and planted an American flag in the lunar surface.

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The closest most of us 'round here will ever get to outer space is blogging about the Lunar X Prize, so our inner astronauts get rather giddy any time an amateur makes it to the cusp of the gravity well.

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However, what I still could do was work on the Space Shuttle program as a scientist where my work developing food for astronauts involved a project to send the first can of Coca-Cola into outer space.

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