It blasted a disused weather satellite into tiny fragments that threaten the safety of other man-made objects in space.

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Esa is a member of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), a forum for the worldwide coordination of activities related to the issues of man-made and natural debris in space.

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And with Danny Pugh and Andy Wilkinson man-on-man against Milner and Young, there was no space in behind for the wingers to exploit.

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The literal launch of brand NASA found every American in front of the flickering black-and-white images of a man hurtling into space.

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An astronaut, in the most proverbial floating-through-space sense, is a brave man who has the world gawking at him.

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That led to him designing the apes seen in the Dawn of Man sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a laborious two-year process that at one stage saw comedian Ronnie Corbett participate in make-up tests.

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