The group wants to launch a supply mission that will land on Mars in October 2016.
The group wants to launch a supply mission that will land on Mars as soon as October 2016.
The UN said they had been on "a regular supply mission" when they were stopped near an observation post by the armed men.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad said the troops were returning to their base at Basra airport after carrying out a re-supply mission at their Basra Palace base.
In response, the Ecuadorean foreign ministry said the helicopter had been on a supply mission to a base near the border and had strayed into Colombian airspace due to a "navigation error".
The CRS-2 supply mission, operated by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, lifted off successfully on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 AM Eastern time.
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The launch, a supply mission for the International Space Station, was a bit of a bumpy ride, but ultimately arrived as planned, marking the second such success for SpaceX and further quieting critics who wondered whether private companies could really take on the Herculean task of defying gravity.
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The mission to keep supply lines to the Soviet ports of Murmansk and Archangel open was reportedly described as the "worst journey in the world" by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Over the last 20 years or so it has expanded its mission from reducing costs in hospital supply chains to also aggregating hospital data for information on quality, safety and lab data.
Aside from funding hurdles, this potential mission and others like it will depend on a steady supply of Pu-238 for propulsion and to power its onboard systems.
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