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Russian spacecraft returns from 7-day trip
Oct 10 2005 10:23PM (CT)
ARKALYK, Kazakhstan (AP) - The seven-day space sojourn of an American millionaire scientist came to a close as he and a Russian-American crew undocked from the international space station and sped back to Earth, landing early Tuesday on the windswept steppes of Kazakhstan.
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Expert: Longleaf pine disappearing in S.C.
Oct 10 2005 7:51PM (CT)
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - The longleaf pine, which once covered tens of millions of acres across the Southeast, is in danger of disappearing in parts of South Carolina, says a forest conservationist with the Clemson Extension Service.
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China readies for second manned launch
Oct 10 2005 7:23PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China's secretive space program planned to launch a pair of astronauts into space as early as this week, pushing ahead with an ambitious program that expects to land an unmanned probe on the moon by 2010.
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Tsunami warning system to be installed
Oct 10 2005 7:06PM (CT)
ON BOARD THE SONNE, Indonesia (AP) - A team of German and Indonesian scientists will set sail Tuesday for Sumatra island to install a tsunami warning system in the region worst hit by last year's Asian killer wave.
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Japanese supersonic test flight a success
Oct 10 2005 7:06PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Japan's space agency on Monday completed the first successful test of a prototype jet that can fly at twice the speed of sound, three years after an earlier test ended in a fiery wreck in the Australian Outback, an official said.
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Biologist discovers new species of lizard
Oct 10 2005 6:59PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - What's black, white, red and green all over? It's something Avila University professor Robert Powell will announce sometime in December.
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Fla. announces Okeechobee cleanup plan
Oct 10 2005 6:58PM (CT)
LAKE OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (AP) - A $200 million plan to restore the Southeast's largest freshwater lake includes expanded reservoirs, new marshes and permanently lower lake levels, Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday.
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Driverless VW wins $2 million robot race
Oct 10 2005 1:38PM (CT)
PRIMM, Nev. (AP) - An unmanned vehicle has successfully navigated a forbidding 132-mile section of the Mojave Desert. The next stop for the technology may be Afghanistan or Iraq.
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X Prize Cup Week ends in New Mexico
Oct 10 2005 4:50AM (CT)
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Several thousand space enthusiasts swarmed to the city's airport for a glimpse of a future in which you might just as easily book a rocket to space as you would a plane to Las Vegas.
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