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Published 20 November, 2008, 05:52

Astronauts on the ISS will mark the anniversary of the station’s construction with a space-walk, but will they also open a bottle of weightless-friendly champagne above the atmosphere? Being separated by thousands of kilometers didn’t stop RT correspondent Ryan Dollard from speaking to the ISS astronauts via satellite link.

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