'Jules Vernes' set for sea voyage
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Europe's biggest, most complex spacecraft is packed up for despatch to the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
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Adventurer Steve Fossett is set to fly an experimental jet around the world without stopping or refuelling.
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LONDON: Two expeditions crossing the equator in opposite directions will illuminate the 2005 British sporting summer.
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A 26-year-old French woman set out in a row boat Wednesday on a 4,900-mile solo voyage to Polynesia, hoping to trace Thor Heyerdahl's epic Pacific crossing six decades ago aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki.
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The ancient art of sailing gets a space-age update next year with the launch of the first sunlight-propelled &quot;solar sail&quot; spacecraft.
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smooth wombat writes &quot;Get out your PDAs and set aside March 1, 2005. That is date the solar sail, named Cosmos 1, is set to be launched from a submerged Russian submarine in the Barents Sea.
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Â· Secret military programme nears completion  Â· Vessels may undergo sea trials next year
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Europe's 20-tonne supply ship for the International Space Station will have its maiden flight on Saturday 8 March.
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A Viking ship made from ice-cream sticks set sail across the Netherlands&#39; IJsselmeer lake on Friday and its stuntman builder hopes to cross the Atlantic later.
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Fans of sailing can watch one competitor in the Vendee Globe challenge from the convenience of their mobile.
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Reenactors following in the footsteps of the Lewis and Clark expedition are encountering weather and experiences that are making the modern journey an adventure in its own right.
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New studies project that the Arctic Ocean could be mostly open water in summer by 2040 Â several decades earlier than previously expected.
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An explorer plans in March to lead an expedition designed to settle a century-old debate over whether the American explorer Robert Peary was the first to reach the North Pole, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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French astronaut Leopold Eyharts has been named for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) to set up Europe's Columbus science module, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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A controversial U.S. shipment of  bomb-grade plutonium escorted by armed British commandos has  set sail for France, despite protests from environmental  activists who fear a terrorist attack or an accident.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Â After two months of delay, a new Columbus voyage set sail aboard NASA's shuttle Atlantis Thursday as seven astronauts rocketed toward the International Space Station (ISS) with a European-built lab.