Space station astronauts give huge trash can the boot

Space station astronauts give huge trash can the boot

A pair of NASA astronauts released a capsule loaded with 1.5 tons of trash Friday as the space station soared over Bolivia.

NASA supplier Orbital ATK launched the capsule to the space station in December, full of food, clothes and other goods.

NASA has handed off space station shipments to private business so it can focus on getting astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, namely to Mars.