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Chile rescue capsule lowered into shaft for tests (AP)

October 12th, 2010

Rescue workers and officials test the rescue capsule that will be used to extract the 33 trapped miners one by one at the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010. The first of 33 trapped miners is expected to be lifted to the surface late Tuesday after surviving more than two months below ground. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Rescuers in Chile are lowering a still-empty escape capsule into the shaft that will finally provide a way out for 33 trapped miners.


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Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakh steppe with 3 aboard (AP)

September 25th, 2010

Rescue helicopters stand at the airport of town of Dzhezkazgan, on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. The return of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to Earth from the International Space Station that was scheduled for Friday has been pushed back by a day because of problems encountered while undocking, the head of the Russian space agency said. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool)AP - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts back from a six-month mission on the International Space Station has touched down safely in the central steppes of Kazakhstan.


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Scientists retrieve capsule, seeking asteroid dust (AP)

June 14th, 2010

In this long exposure photo released by Japan's Wakayama University Institute for Education on Space, two streaks of the Hayabusa probe, the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid, and its capsule streak across the sky, from left to right, near Glendambo in southern Australia as they reenter the Earth's atmosphere late Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Wakayama University Institute for Education on Space, HO) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A team of scientists flew to the Australian Outback on Monday and recovered a Japanese space capsule that they hope contains asteroid samples providing clues into the evolution…

Russian space capsule with 3 aboard lands (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

AP - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts back from a five-month mission on the International Space Station landed early Wednesday in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

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