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Cheers! French Wine, Vines Headed Home After Year in Space
The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.
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Packed and Ready, Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft Begins 200 Million-Mile Journey Back to Earth
A NASA spacecraft tucked more than 2 pounds of asteroid samples into a capsule for return to Earth after losing some of its precious loot because of a jammed lid, scientists said Thursday.
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Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Dies at 88
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88. Worden died in his sleep at a rehab center in Houston following treatment for an infection, said friend and colleague Tom Kallman. “Al was an American hero whose achievements in space and on Earth…
