The achievements include sending rovers to Mars, placing countless communication and imagining satellites in orbit, and the International Space Station, a semi-permanent home in space.

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The one American attempt at a semi-permanent space station Skylab was crewed for a mere six months in the 1970s, whereas Mir has been continuously occupied since its launch.

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However interesting all these features are, the best part of Camp Leakey is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit in a forest and share space with these semi-wild orangutans.

BBC: Drifting down the Sekonyer

However painful or slow it may be, Apple must ensure Search works and works well for iOS. This is another space where we cannot leave Google to become the semi-monopoly that it is today.

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"Sending (the monkey into space) and retrieving it was the first step for sending humans into space, " Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.

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But in the vacuum of space the tiny amount of air trapped between them would inflate to create a semi-rigid structure.

BBC: Sticking solar power station where the Sun shines

White poses his monomaniacs front and center with a lot of space around them and lets the actors (including Laura Dern and Peter Sarsgaard) speak their semi-satirical lines without interruption.

NEWYORKER: Year of the Dog

Both sides were reduced to 12 men when Semi Tadulala and Jamie Thackray were sin-binned following a spicy altercation and Hull took advantage of the extra space when Willie Manu and Hall set Sing clear on the right flank.

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