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Nasa's $260 Million Blunder

Kelly Hayes - Sep 8, 2004 / 2:47 pm | Story: 3900

A spacecraft carrying dust expected to offer clues about the solar system's origin crashed into the Utah desert Wedneday, after its parachute failed to open. The Genesis capsule, whose cargo would have been the first material recovered from space by NASA in more than 30 years, plunged to Earth at 310 km/h and hit with the force of a freight train. NASA said it will not know for weeks whether the sample – part of a six-year project that cost $260 million US – was destroyed.
Russia's military is ready to launch pre-emptive strikes at terrorist bases anywhere in the world, one of the country's top generals said Wednesday.
Reacting to a report that 1,000 U.S. military personnel have died since the American-led war on Iraq began, President George W. Bush said Wednesday that his administration mourns "every loss of life."
The most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in 14 years is churning toward Jamaica after leaving nine people dead and "incalculable damage" in Grenada.
A U.S. federal judge has ruled that a law banning partial birth abortions is unconstitutional, the third judge to strike a blow to the act signed last year by President George W. Bush.
Israel is taking measures to defend itself from Iran because the world is not doing enough to stop it from developing atomic weapons, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday.

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