After five years the MoD will have the option to extend the charter, return the ship or purchase her outright.
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The Soyuz space ship carrying Tito and the cosmonauts will serve as the new lifeboat and the three men will return on the older ship.
It is believed crewmates put him in a taxi outside a bar after a night out, but he failed to return to the ship.
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Hopefully, the passage of time will eventually allow him to return to steering his ship to calmer (and perhaps more regulated) waters.
During that time, astronauts will load about 2, 300 pounds of cargo back on the ship, and then it will return to Earth on March 25, splashing down off the coast of Baja California.
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On Endeavour's return, the only active ship left in the US space agency's (Nasa) shuttle fleet will be Atlantis.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire started with a leak in a fuel-oil return line running from one of the ship's engines.
It focuses on the creation of the ship, telling the story through the eyes and words of the workers who put a piece of themselves into the ship and those who sailed from Belfast never to return.
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The ship's commanding officer, Captain Norbert Schatz, reportedly threatened to return the trainees to Germany and declare them unfit for service, according to testimony from several of them cited in the report.
The ship, which left Galveston, Texas, on Thursday, had been scheduled to return there on Monday.
The ship, due to arrive in the Spanish port of Santander on Tuesday morning, may also carry civilians on its return.
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