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Key Takeaways:

  • A Yakovlev-40 airliner crashed on approach to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, killing all 36 people aboard.
  • President Bush proposed a $1 billion increase for NASA's budget, aiming to establish a lunar base and retire the Space Shuttle by 2010.
  • Solo circumnavigator Gus McLeod plans another attempt to reach the South Pole soon.
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A Yakovlev-40 airliner crashed Tuesday on approach to the airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. All 36 aboard were killed…

President Bush yesterday proposed a $1 billion boost for NASA’s budget, and called for a lunar base and retirement of the aging Space Shuttle by 2010…

Solo circumnavigator Gus McLeod plans to try again for the South Pole, perhaps as soon as tomorrow.

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