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Company is first to return spacecraft from orbit

6:22pm GMT, Thursday, 9 December 2010

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA took a giant leap away from the spaceflight business Wednesday as a private company launched a spacecraft into orbit and for the first time guided it safely back to Earth, a feat previously achieved only by large national governments….
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