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Falcon 9 Ready For Final Assembly At CapeCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2010 SpaceX reportsthat all the flight hardware for the first launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle is now at the SpaceX launch site, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Final delivery included the Falcon 9 second stage, which recently completed testing at the SpaceX test facility in McGregor, Texas. SpaceX has now initiated full vehicle integration of the 47 meter (154 feet) tall, 3.6 meter (12 feet) diameter rocket, which will include a Dragon spacecraft qualification unit. ... read more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 14, 2010The US military has pulled thousands of its troops from quake-hit Haiti because aid operations have improved, a general said Saturday, as relief workers raced to boost conditions at squalid camps. There were growing calls to speed up efforts to provide tarps and tents ahead of the rainy season, which threatens to bring more misery to the estimated 1.2 million left homeless by the massive ear ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 13, 2010Edmond Dimanche sat perched on a pile of rubble in a landfill, recovering metal rods and bricks, anything he can sell for a few pennies to get by. "I have had nothing else to do for some time. I'm surviving by doing this job," said Dimanche, 40, speaking in a mixture of French and Creole. He displayed twisted iron extracted from concrete blocks, sheet metal, and all kinds of plastic, pap ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 12, 2010They drink French water, buy Camembert from Normandy and fine olive oil from Italy, but Haiti's rich are among the lucky few to have escaped unscathed from the killer earthquake a month ago. In upscale Petionville, in the foothills of Port-au-Prince, several markets run by Syrians are stocked with an inventory of products that far surpasses the basic needs that are still largely unmet for ma ... more |
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China's economic rise has silver lining for JapanTokyo (AFP) Feb 14, 2010 China is on the verge of unseating Japan as the world's number two economy, but student Shi Minfei is one reason why Beijing's rapid growth is not all bad news for its deflation-hit neighbour. With Japan's consumers keeping a tight hold on their purse strings, leaving the country as reliant as ever on exports, Chinese tourists like Shi are a rare example of good news for the country's long-suffering retailers. The 20-year-old engineering student from Shanghai said she had splurged about 300,000 ... read more |
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