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There could also soon be a second New Zealand launch site. The government announced Tuesday it was partnering with Indigenous Maori to buy land in the Canterbury region to develop a space launch site.

Estimates indicate the New Zealand space industry is worth 1. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement that New Zealand was one of seven nations that helped craft the principles in the accords and he was delighted they had signed up.

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They made a demonstration jump immediately after arriving, observed by Gen. Taylor and On July 29, , track and field legend Carl Lewis wins his fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the long jump. It was the ninth and final Olympic gold of his storied career. Frederick Carlton Lewis was born July 11, , in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in a middle-class The two actors reportedly met on a blind date in and quickly became favorites of the tabloid A fire on a United States Navy carrier stationed off the coast of Vietnam kills service members on July 29, The deadly fire on the USS Forrestal began with the accidental launch of a rocket.

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