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(AFP/Getty Images/File) - The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, according to Space Shuttle Program Manager John Shannon (pictured in 2006).(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel)
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(AFP/NASA/File) - In the grasp of the Canadarm2, the cupola was relocated from the forward port to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's newly installed Tranquility node in this NASA image obtained in February 2010. The consortium of agencies building the ISS wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.(AFP/NASA/File)
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(AFP/Xinhua/File) - China's Shenzhou VI manned mission into space carrying two astronauts, lifts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, in China's Gansu province in 2005. China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday.(AFP/Xinhua/File)
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(AFP/File) - Skeleton of a dinosaur is pictured on display at a Tokyo museum. Dinosaurs were wiped out by a huge asteroid that smashed into Earth 65 million years ago with the force of a billion atomic bombs, scientists said Thursday, hoping to lay an age-old debate to rest once and for all.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
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(AFP/File) - The Khumbu Glacier, one of the longest glaciers in the world, in the Everest-Khumbu region of Nepal. A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said.(AFP/File/Prakash Mathema)
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