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Old 02-09-2003, 07:42 PM #8
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Just a few updates.....

Its almost 95% Certain they will be leaving tommorow morning, confirmation 9pm tonight.

It will make the United Kingdom the 3rd country in the world to enter space

Flight Will take 5 hours after leaving a ship in St Ives

Live Coverage On BBC Website
Live Updates BBC NEWS Channel

Fact: 1mm of ice covering the ballon would way over 60 tones

60,000,000,000 Regular sized helium ballons would be needed to fill the ballon!

Cheers adam


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