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The first of two test vehicles in Japan's spaceplane development program flew Oct. 18 on an abandoned runway on Christmas Island in Kiribati. The 3.34-meter-long (11-ft.) unmanned vehicle, jointly developed by Japan's National Aerospace Laboratory and National Space Development Agency, was powered...
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