The national space agency, Roscosmos, said scientists believed one meteoroid had entered the atmosphere, where it burned and disintegrated into fragments.

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The national space agency, Roscosmos, said scientists believed one meteoroid had entered the atmosphere, where it burned and disintegrated into fragments, according to RIA Novosti.

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After leaving railways he was snapped up by Japan's National Space Development Agency and was its president until he retired in 1977.

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"We've just collected images over Mali, which we've handed over to the armed forces because we believe they will be helpful to them in the peacekeeping mission over there, " says Seidu Mohammed, director-general of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA).

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We will find out next week what state the revised European plans are in when national delegations to the European Space Agency (Esa) meet to discuss the so-called ExoMars project.

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The study involved 26 laboratories and was supported by the European Space Agency and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Each scientist or engineer is employed or funded by the Federal government and includes members of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Science Foundation.

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So it is with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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