Astronaut has one-way ride to station

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- In 2 1/2 weeks, astronaut Bill McArthur plans to cap a 15-year career with NASA by flying to the international space station for a six-month stay. The only problem is he doesn't have a ride home.

NASA's space shuttles cannot launch again until their fuel tanks are fixed and Hurricane Katrina has shut down the New Orleans manufacturing facility that produces the tanks and was working on the problem. Half of the work force at the plant, which is operated by Lockheed Martin for NASA, has not been found since the storm hit.

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