Meanwhile, mission specialist Charlie Camarda and pilot Jim Kelly have been continuing to inspect the shuttle for damage sustained during the climb to orbit, using the shuttle's 15m-long boom to photograph and scan Discovery's port wing.

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More than 15, 000 pairs of women's running shoes from Wing Star and bound for the U.S. operations of Asics arrived at a Los Angeles port in March, according to U.S. shipping data from online database Import Genius.

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His team is about to safety-test a fixed-wing reconnaissance UAV for a consortium of clients including the police, coastguards, the lifeboat service and Dutch port authorities, to help them carry out maritime surveillance more efficiently.

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