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Space shuttle moved to Florida launch pad (Reuters)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

The space shuttle Discovery is photographed at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, September 30, 2007. (NASA/Handout/Reuters)Reuters – Workers at the Kennedy Space Center moved the space shuttle Discovery out to its ocean-side launch pad on Sunday in preparation for a construction mission to the International Space Station slated to begin in three weeks.


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Fossett searchers think they have leads (AP)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

American adventurer Steve Fossett arrives at Kent International Airport, Manston, Kent, England. in this Feb. 11, 2006, photo. Searchers ramped up the quest for some sign of the  missing adventurer on Saturday Sept. 29, 2007, as ground crews moved into the rugged back country of western Nevada looking for Fossett's plane 27 days after it was last seen. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)AP – Teams on the ground and in two aircraft kept up the hunt for millionaire aviator Steve Fossett on Sunday after a new analysis of radar data provided fresh optimism.


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Asia could win next 'Space Race', US scientists fear (AFP)

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

TV grab shows Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei waving as he heads to board the Shenzhou V spacecraft, in October 2003. The successful launch of China's first manned space mission caps eleven years of a secretive program designed to tell the world the communist giant has arrived as a global leader.(AFP/BTV/File)AFP – Fifty years after the launch of Sputnik left the United States scrambling to play catch-up in the first Space Race, US scientists fear history may be repeating itself as Asia emerges as the rising force in space exploration.


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