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Baghdad can wait, our town needs us, say US reservists

National Guardsmen bound for Iraq returned instead to their tornado-flattened town to help clean up splintered homes and businesses and check on their loved ones after twisters killed at least 40 people in three US states.

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Discovery brings space station pioneers back

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Discovery hurtles towards Florida landing

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Wet and windy weather may divert Discovery

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First space station crew to return on shuttle

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Discovery blasts off to international space station

Spacewalk to attach port to space station

Astronauts on board the Atlantis shuttle were due to take a space walk today to help attach a temporary docking port to the Alpha space station’s new science laboratory.

Mon, 12 Feb, 2001

Space lab mission accomplished

The crews of the US space shuttle Atlantis and international space station Alpha yesterday entered the science laboratory Destiny for the first time after it was attached to its new home.

Mon, 12 Feb, 2001