* Astronomy

 Fifty years after the launch of Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, the world's space industry is to gather at Hyderabad, in India, from 24 to 28 September, to find new ways to benefit humanity, and make money from space.
The 2,000-odd delegates will discuss new manned and unmanned missions to the moon and Mars, the completion of an international space station, as well as how to ward off earth-threatening asteroids and natural disasters through space technology.

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