Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

And next year, the country is launching a small space lab to practice docking in orbit - an essential part of manned missions to the Moon and Mars.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

During the dive, which takes up to four hours due to the high density of the water (it is filled with certain chemicals plus air pressure to simulate the circumstances found in space), the cosmonauts in training practice space walking -- and may lose a few kilos off their waist line in the strenuous process.

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Over there, the accountants add to earnings a paper gain for supposed appreciation in the properties, a practice that in the U.S. would get them space in the cell next to Bernie Ebbers'.

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In practice, an animal that roams hundreds of miles in the wild can find itself contained in a space no bigger than a living room.

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