Soyuz capsule makes snowy landing with three-man crew

NEWSALERT: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 @ 1805 GMT
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SOYUZ CAPSULE MAKES SNOWY LANDING WITH THREE-MAN CREW
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Outgoing Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly, Soyuz TMA-01M commander
Alexander Kaleri and flight engineer Oleg Skripochka undocked from the
International Space Station Wednesday, plunged back into the atmosphere
and descended to a snowy touchdown in Kazakhstan at 3:54 a.m. EDT to close
out 159-day mission.

http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp26/status2.html


ANOTHER COMMERCIAL IMAGER PICKS ATLAS 5 FOR LAUNCH
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Having already won the competition to launch one commercial Earth-imaging
satellite, the Atlas 5 rocket has been picked by the rival spacecraft
company to deploy its bird too.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1103/15worldview3/


A WELL-TRAVELLED METEORITE
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Analysis of a pea-sized chunk of meteorite dating back to the dawn of the
Solar System provides the first evidence that dust particles bound up in
these ancient rocks are well-travelled and have experienced a range of
environments.

http://astronomynow.com/news/n1103/03meteorite/


SATELLITES CATCH STARTLING VIEWS OF TSUNAMI AFTERMATH
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Images from satellites circling hundreds of miles above Earth show
widespread debris and flooded coastlines from the earthquake and tsunami
that devastated northeastern Japan Friday.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1103/14japan/

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