Global space congress looks to the future
HYDERABAD, India (AFP) - Fifty years after the launch of the first satellite, key players in the global space industry were to meet here from Monday to seek new ways to benefit humanity through space exploration.
Missions to the moon and Mars, the completion of an international space station by 2010 and efforts to ward off earth-threatening asteroids and natural disasters through space technology top the week-long agenda.
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