Unloading of Grounded Freighter Under Way
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ With barge and crane, workers Monday started offloading 2,000 metric tons of bauxite in hopes of lightening and freeing the Clipper Lasco, a 645-foot freighter grounded off Fort Lauderdale. "It's just like taking sand and dumping it in a bucket," U.S. Coast Guard Lt.
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In this photo released by Unalaska Community Broadcasting, the two halfs of the Malaysian cargo ship Selendang Ayu sit on the rocks about 400-500 yards offshore in Skan Bay on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Island chain Thursday, Dec.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 28--Jamestown will just have to wait to go up in space.   With the launch of the shuttle Atlantis delayed by hail damage, a handful of commemorative Jamestown 2007 items have been grounded for at least a couple of months.
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An unmanned Progress cargo shall carry all the supplies to International Space Station in future. Recently food ran short and the supply was needed urgently.
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Authorities have approved a salvage plan   for the cargo ship "Clipper Lasco" that ran aground off Fort   Lauderdale, Florida, on Thursday and cargo will be unloaded to   help free the vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts aboard NASA's shuttle Atlantis are converting their spacecraft back into a 100-ton glider today as they gear up for a planned Wednesday landing.
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Astronauts spent Sunday preparing for  an extra spacewalk to free a stuck solar array on the  International Space Station and unloading supplies brought up  by the shuttle Discovery.
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The crew of the International Space Station Monday repositioned their Soyuz rescue capsule to clear the way for two space walks planned in the coming weeks.
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Shuttle Atlantis docked with the   International Space Station on Monday, and prepared to hand   over a 35,000-pound (15,880-kg) truss for attachment to the   half-finished research outpost.
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By Traci Watson  NASA engineers cleared space shuttle Atlantis for landing today, concluding after inspections that an object seen drifting near the vehicle and three more pieces of nearby debris were not a worry.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are setting the stage for the spacewalk finale of their six-month mission Thursday to free a jammed antenna on a Russian cargo ship.
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World News, Cherbourg, France: Two armed freighters carrying plutonium from scrapped US nuclear warheads have docked in the French port of Cherbourg.
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In a story July 13 about a fire on a tanker unloading at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, The Associated Press erroneously reported the vessel's cargo based on information from a port official. The vessel was carrying liquefied petroleum gas, not liquefied natural gas.
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NASA -- An unpiloted Russian cargo ship linked up the International Space Station this morning to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel, oxygen, water and supplies to the residents onboard.     The ISS Progress 15 craft automatically docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 12:01 a.m...
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ANCHORAGE--The Pacific Ocean route where a Malaysian freighter went aground and broke up is among the most heavily trafficked shipping routes in the world.
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Salvage crews are to try to refloat a truck ferry which has run aground off the Blackpool coast.
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Workers pumped fuel from a 600-foot freighter on Saturday in an attempt to refloat the vessel after it ran aground near a South Florida port.