Babacar Gaye, U.N. military adviser for peacekeeping operations, has taken over temporary command of the supervision mission.

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In the United States, NASA's space station program manager told reporters Monday that the timing of the rescheduled mission could force the temporary de-manning of the space station later this year.

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The IMF's mission was to give countries temporary short-term loans so they could put their economic houses in order, coping with temporary balance-of-payment problems without resorting to destructive tariffs or massive devaluations.

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While Curiosity's landing is bound to burnish NASA's image and improve its employee morale, the mission may provide only a temporary political boost for an agency that has struggled to chart a new course amid spending constraints, persistent legislative fights and last year's retirement of the space shuttle fleet.

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