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RE: Alice Springs Space balloon

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Debris from last week's multi-million dollar NASA balloon crash has found its way to a scrap dealer for $100.
Alice Springs company Metal Recyclers confirmed this week that it had paid for pieces of the space junk.
But scientists behind the ill-fated launch that wiped out two cars in Alice Springs last week denied millions of dollars worth of scientific equipment had been reduced to just $100 worth of scrap metal.
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NASA Balloon crash destroys multimillion payload

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Space balloon rips from mooring

The launch of a giant space balloon went badly wrong Thursday in the Australian Outback when it and its heavy payload of scientific equipment broke from a mooring and dragged across the desert, overturning an SUV and narrowly missing bystanders.
One witness said she felt lucky to be alive after the car-sized, unmanned gondola hanging beneath the balloon careened out of control into the vehicle parked next to hers at the launch site near Alice Springs in central Australia.
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