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South Koreans race for space

Fast runners qualify for astronaut selection.

Last Saturday, South Korea hosted a 3.5-kilometre running race with the aim of selecting the fittest participants for its fledgling space programme. But although 10,000 people had been invited to prove their worth by running the course in under 20 minutes, only 3,300 people bothered to show up.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on September 8, 2006 06:43 PM |

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