In mid-November, Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the "United Nations Forces, " came over on a reconnaissance flight.

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Five American soldiers and two Colombians were killed after a United States military plane on an anti-drugs reconnaissance flight crashed in a remote part of Colombia .

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The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has sent up a reconnaissance flight to investigate how the ash is distributed in the cloud, something that is impossible to assess from satellite imagery.

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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he saw a patch of light oil sheen some three to four miles from Pensacola Beach on Thursday afternoon from a reconnaissance flight over the Florida Panhandle.

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"There's no physical difference in the moon, " said Noah Petro, scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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The enigmatic "Mona Lisa" countenance was digitized and traveled via laser almost 240, 000 miles from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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