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NASA SKIPS SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS' FIRST LANDING OPPORTUNITY FRI
22 Jun 2007 16:10:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., June 22 (Reuters) - NASA skipped its first opportunity on Friday to bring the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis back home to Florida because of continuing bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center.

The U.S. space agency still has another chance on Friday to land the shuttle at Kennedy after a two-week mission to the International Space Station or it may opt to land at a secondary site at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Indonesian soldiers try to pull out a body in Morowali district, Central Sulawesi, July 29, 2007. Bad weather hampered relief operations in the remote area where about 85 people have died and nearly 8,000 people displaced from their homes which were submerged by landslides and floods up to three metres (10ft) high.



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