If the flight is only partly successful, it still promises to be the "spark that ignites a thriving industry, " former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, president of a trade group pushing such projects, told reporters said Thursday.

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In addition to more established groups like the Leadership Summit (led by Frank Carbajal), and Hispanic-Net (led by Michael Lopez and Margarita Quihuis), we now have emerging groups like LAM (Giovanni Dubois), Silicon Valley Latino (Alex Ontivero, Jose Posadas, and Sergio Domeyko), and the Latino Startup Alliance (Jesse Martinez).

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CNN's Elwyn Lopez, Carma Hassan and Michael Christian, from the InSession division of CNN's sister network TruTV, contributed to this report.

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Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau beat Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez 6-1 6-2 6-7 (6-8) 7-6 (7-5) to give France an unassailable 3-0 lead.

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Lisandro Lopez put the hosts ahead after a mistake by Michael Ciani, but Marouane Chamakh headed in a 14th-minute equaliser.

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Two years ago it launched Jennifer Lopez's JLO line of intimate apparel and also expanded into surf apparel with the Michael Kors swimwear license.

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