This left Russia's Soyuz capsules as the only means of transportation to and from the space station, reducing Russia's ability to sell seats on its rockets.

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Whether catching a concert, shooting video, or recording guitar, Mikey Digital captures truly professional recordings on-the-go with two of Blue's premium condenser capsules and built-in sensitivity control.

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In addition, Tiki's dual facing capsules continuously monitor audio from both sides of the microphone, making a decision almost every second to differentiate between voice and unwanted noise.

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Burma became one of the world's great time capsules.

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She has also traveled to Abu Dhabi to report on the pre-planned sustainable city Masdar, tasted wine made by robots in California's Napa Valley, explored four space capsules, covered the privatization of space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, and gone behind the bars of San Quentin Prison to see how the institution taught inmates to make mini satellites.

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By contrast, Nespresso's doses are neat aluminium capsules, also kept under pressure using carbon dioxide.

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It is the third time in the space station's history that a crew has had to take shelter in escape capsules because of the possibility of being hit by orbital debris.

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The capsules containing items such as sweets, matches and ice cubes were carried into the earth's atmosphere by two high altitude balloons on Friday.

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