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| Opinion: A bump in the road | | Leroy Chiao says the spectacular failure of the launch is painful but won't stop the trend toward commercializing space |
| NASA needs private industry | | Orbital Sciences, which built the Antares rocket that exploded in a massive fireball Tuesday, described the explosion as a "catastrophic failure." It certainly looked like it. Will this failure also be a setback for the burgeoning private space industry? |
| Kim Jong Un | | North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who recently disappeared from public view for about six weeks, had a cyst removed from his right ankle, a semi-official South Korean news agency reported Tuesday. |
| Hawaii lava flow | | A 2,000-degree river of lava could swallow a dozen Hawaiian homes in the next day or two -- and there's nothing anyone can do about it. |
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