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Gallery: Top 10 objects that have flown in space

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Gallery: Top 10 objects that have flown in space

Forget spacesuits, solid rocket boosters and robot arms – more sentimental and whimsical objects have reached escape velocity

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51¶¯Âþ review 2008: Asia's space race takes off

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Flaw may have sent Beagle 2 to a fiery doom

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Flaw may have sent Beagle 2 to a fiery doom

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51¶¯Âþ review 2008: The year NASA's star began to wane

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Virgin Galactic 'mothership' to take first flight

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Virgin Galactic 'mothership' to take first flight

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Space elevator trips could be agonisingly slow

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Space elevator trips could be agonisingly slow

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Rocket company offers $95,000 trips to space

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Rocket company offers $95,000 trips to space

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Space shuttle lands safely in California

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Space shuttle lands safely in California

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NASA may struggle to afford new space missions

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NASA may struggle to afford new space missions

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Europe charts €10 billion course for space exploration

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Europe charts €10 billion course for space exploration

The European Space Agency's 18 member nations have hammered out a plan for space missions over the next few years

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Europe tackles space ambitions amid financial crisis

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Solar-powered probe to view unseen parts of Jupiter

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Space station urine recycler may be fixed

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Science could soar with world's most powerful rocket

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