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India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth
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Slashdot host a story on India safely bringing a satellite from orbit. Their summary: "In a pathbreaking event heralding its arrival as a space power with capability to recover an orbiting satellite, India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth, giving a new impetus to the proposed manned mission to space in the next decade."
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