It was the latest in a recent run of flight failures for the national rocket industry.

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He dropped out of college to run a spring-break charter flight business.

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And this would only happen if the Soyuz rockets are not returned to flight before critical supplies of oxygen, water and food run low.

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Venezuela's national prosecutor's office said a judge had ordered Tracy held until further notice in a jail run by the national intelligence service in the capital, Caracas, because he presented a risk of flight.

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