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NASA readies space probe to blast comet
Jul 2 2005 10:04PM (CT)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - It's a space mission straight out of Hollywood _ launch a spacecraft 268 million miles so it can aim a barrel-sized probe toward a speeding comet half the size of Manhattan and smash a hole in it.
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Adventurers try to reprise historic flight
Jul 2 2005 9:59PM (CT)
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) - American adventurers Steve Fossett and Mark Rebholz took off Saturday in an attempt to retrace a record-setting flight across the Atlantic made 86 years earlier.
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4 in mourning deal with shuttle's return
Jul 2 2005 6:55PM (CT)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Each man had an intimate tie to the Columbia disaster. Two were in Mission Control trying to save the shuttle and its crew, and two were 900 miles away at the Florida landing strip waiting for a spacecraft that would never come. For more than two years, these four NASA employees at Johnson Space Center have struggled with grief and guilt and dealt in their own way with the shuttle's return to flight.
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Ship is supersized in unusual operation
Jul 2 2005 6:49PM (CT)
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Instructions for adding 151 cabins, swimming pools, water fountain, restaurants, two suspension bridges and a bungee-trampoline to a giant cruise ship:
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Noxious alien weed flourishing in South
Jul 2 2005 6:47PM (CT)
TOLEDO BEND RESERVOIR, Texas (AP) - One biologist compares the persistent green weed to "The Blob," the title character in the 1950s sci-fi classic flick that grows and grows and consumes everything in its path. Other scientists describe the plant as looking like little heads of lettuce or squished green grapes. Then they use terms like noxious, invasive and just plain scary. Even the species name sounds sinister: salvinia molesta.
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Wildfires pose danger to desert tortoise
Jul 2 2005 2:23AM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Wildfires burning in the Southwest are threatening federally protected desert tortoises, further stressing a species that already has lost much of its population to drought.
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