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First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon |
 ...This week Robert Swan plans to begin his expedition to Antarctica. The adventurer says his aim is to open an online education center, which by his words will be the first in the world. The center will allow children to watch in real-time how life goes on the ice.
It is to mention that Robert Swan was the first adventurer to walk to the North and South poles without any assistance. Now his aim is to build a center on a ... |
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5th Space Tourist Has Left the Atmosphere |
 ...Charles Simonyi"Soyuz TMA-10" has started today from Baikonur with the crew of the 15th ISS expedition on board. One of the passengers of the spacecraft was the 5th ever space tourist - Charles Simonyi, one of Microsoft's co-founders.
The rocket was launched as planned, at 21.31 Moscow Time (0.31 UTC). At 21.39 Moscow Time (0.39 UTC) the spacecraft should have released from the carrier Soyuz-FG, as stated by one of the o... |
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Russia Could Claim Rights for North Pole Territories in 2009 |
 ...es of digs and tests, which are meant to show the exact boundary of the Russian shelf.
The Ministry of Natural Resources of the country said on 20 September that according to reports provided by the expedition "Arctica-2007", the Lomonosov Ridge, along with other territories of this region are parts of the Russian coastal shelf. According to the Ministry representatives, more accurate information will be available in Dec... |
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Russian Scientists Reached the Bottom of World's Deepest Lake |
 ...ld's fresh water. In 1996 the area around Lake Baikal, located in Siberia, was declared a Unesco World Heritage.
Two major Russian news agencies, Interfax and Itar-Tass, quoted the organizers of the expedition as saying that the two capsules, dubbed Mir I and Mir II, had reached the bottom of Lake Baikal.
"This is a world record for a submarine diving in fresh water," Interfax quoted one of the organizers as saying.
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Russian Mini-Submarines Failed to Set World Record |
| ...Russian scientists did not settle a new world record for the deepest dive in fresh water. The two mini-submarines failed to reach the bottom of Lake Baikal.
"There was no record," the leader of the expedition, Artur Chilingarov, told reporters. "We'll try again," he added.
The first capsule, called Mir-1 went down to 1,580 meters (5,184 feet), thus contradicting earlier the claims regarding the fact that the mini-subm... |
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