Space station crew cleans up toxic spill
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An oxygen generator on the international space station overheated and spilled a toxic irritant Monday, forcing the three-man crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost.
NASA said the crew members? lives were never in any danger. They cleaned up the spill with towels. A charcoal filter scrubbed the irritant out of the air. And within a couple of hours life aboard the station 220 miles (350 kilometers) above Earth was nearly back to normal.
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