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NASA ABANDONS AUSTRALIAN BALLOON EXPERIMENT

SYDNEY, NASA will not attempt to relaunch its experiment to gather information on cosmic radiation after aborted balloon journey in Central Australia. An ultra-long-duration-balloon carrying a million-dollar payload was brought down 200-kilometres west of Alice Springs after the monitoring team noticed it was not gaining altitude. NASA scientists will try to determine why the balloon began to leak...

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