Israeli Astronaut, Diverse Science Launched Amid Tight Security

Israel's first astronaut and a complex array of commercial and basic research experiments, including those from Israel, Europe, China and Japan, have begun a 17-day space mission on the shuttle Columbia following launch here Jan. 16, under heavy security against potential terrorist attack. That...

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