1.   NASA is now developing and testing an array of exercise gear to help orbiting astronauts work up heavy sweats, although none are yet in use.

2.   Only Fresh Kills remained, growing so big that it is visible to orbiting astronauts.

3.   Orbiting U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts bid one another an emotional farewell Thursday before the shuttle Atlantis separated from the Mir space station after five days of docked activities.

4.   The devices include e-mail and a new Internet telephone system that enables the orbiting astronauts to call home.

5.   The orbiting astronaut, however, was given only cryptic word from below that engineers suspected a potentially disastrous problem.