Astronaut Pam Melroy, history's third woman space shuttle pilot, flew the spaceshuttle Discovery to the INternational Space Station to complete construction inOctober of 2000. To unlock from the space station Pilot Melroy released hooksholding the two spacecraft together and the 68,000 kg shuttle pushed away fromthe space station with the aid of four large springs. If the 73,000 kg space stationmoved back at a speed of .6 m/s, how fast did the shuttle move?

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