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Stories about: space mission

Russians to Send Earth Organisms to Mars Moon If the Russian plan is successful, a launch this October could take colonies of resistant bacteria from Earth to one of Mars' moons and then back home, the RosCosmos agency announced recently. In addition to making the trip to Phobos, Mars' closest orbiting moon, the mission will also deploy a Chinese Yingh... 7 January 2009 18:01 GMT SpaceX Finally Took to Orbit After three failed attempts to reach a stable orbit, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has finally managed to set its Falcon 1 booster in a perfect elliptic orbit around Earth, at a distance of about 700 km (435 miles). SpaceX CEO and CTO Elon Musk, co-founder of the PayPal Internet payment technology, sa... 29 September 2008 06:28 GMT