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Astronauts might one day sleep their way to Mars by spending much of the long, arduous journey in hypothermic hibernation chambers.
Two US astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner will have to return home with rival SpaceX, NASA says. "NASA has decided that Butch and Sunny will return with Crew 9 next February, and that Starliner will return uncrewed," NASA administrator Bill Nelson tells reporters. The return of Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams has been delayed by thruster malfunctions of the Boeing spacecraft. SOUNDBITE
Several dozen British soldiers from the 47th Royal Marine Commando disembark from barges on Gold beach to the sound of bagpipes before a large crowd of spectators who have come to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. IMAGES
A space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, lands on the Earth's surface in Kazakhstan. IMAGES
Palestinians gather near the Israel-Gaza border barrier for a rally to mark the 47th anniversary of Land Day, which commemorates the events of March 30, 1976, when Israeli troops shot and killed six people among Arab Israelis and Palestinians protesting land confiscations. IMAGES
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