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Top 10 Things Launched Into Space in 2008

Published January 4, 2009, 9:40 pm, Wired News

Among the best things launched into space in 2008 were a tourist, a heat-seaking missile an Indian moon probe and the first Chinese astronauts to do a space walk.

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