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    • MOSCOW (AFP) Mar 03, 2005
     A Progress cargo vessel arrived Wednesday at the International Space Station with more than 2.5 tonnes of supplies, including food, water and fuel -- and some 50 live snails, Russia's mission control centre said.

    The space ship, which docked on automatic mode at the ISS, had taken off Monday from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with its load of snails for a series of tests on weightlessness, Itar-Tass quoted the centre as saying.

    The mollusks are to return to Earth in late April along with the current crew, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and US astronaut Leroy Chiao




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