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8 surprising hunks of space gear that returned to Earth

NASA and others have had their share of spacecraft parts fall back to Earth

Now that NASA's 6.5 ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) has scattered itself across the Pacific Ocean, we thought we'd take a look at some of the other large pieces of space equipment that has returned to Earth rather unexpectedly. As a bonus we give you two items that happily were expected to return as well.

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