Laura Sedlock digs her car out of a parking space on Carlton Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow on the area Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ALEXANDER OSIPOVICH**War-torn 'nursery' hopes to send monkeys to Mars** (FILES) An undated file photo shows the director of Sukhumi's monkey nursery, Sergei Ardzimba, feeding his monkeys.The monkeys at the run-down research centre at the Institute of Pathology and Therapy which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all -- a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation. Residents of the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi call this place the "monkey nursery" and proudly recall how it produced groundbreaking medical research and raised two rhesus monkeys, Yerosha and Dryoma, sent into space in 1987. AFP PHOTO FILES/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
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A group of men volunteer to push a vehicle out of a parking space during a snow storm in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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This picture released by NASA shows Expedition 22 NASA Flight Engineer Timothy J. Creamer answering a reporter's question during a press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur on December 19, 2009. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 22 NASA Flight Engineer Timothy J. Creamer of the US, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov of Russia and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of Japan, is scheduled for December 21, 2009. AFP PHOTO/NASA/Bill Ingalls/HO ++RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT: NASA/Bill Ingalls++ (Photo credit should read BILL INGALLS/AFP/Getty Images)
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This picture released by NASA shows Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi (R) of Japan and compatriot backup crew member Satoshi Furakawa waving farewell to reporters and family after a press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur on December 19, 2009. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 22 NASA Flight Engineer Timothy J. Creamer of the US, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov of Russia and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of Japan, is scheduled for December 21, 2009. AFP PHOTO/NASA/Bill Ingalls/HO ++RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT: NASA/Bill Ingalls++ (Photo credit should read BILL INGALLS/AFP/Getty Images)
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This picture released by NASA shows Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi answering a reporter's question during a press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur on December 19, 2009. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 22 NASA Flight Engineer Timothy J. Creamer of the US, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov of Russia and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of Japan, is scheduled for December 21, 2009. AFP PHOTO/NASA/Bill Ingalls/HO ++RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT: NASA/Bill Ingalls++ (Photo credit should read BILL INGALLS/AFP/Getty Images)
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The next Soyuz mission crew members face the madia, with from left: U.S. astronaut Timothy J. Creame, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, and Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchir, during a news conference at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Monday, December 21. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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The next Soyuz mission crew members face the madia, with from left: U.S. astronaut Timothy J. Creame, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, and Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchir, during a news conference at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Monday, December 21. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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In this photo provided on Saturday Dec. 19, 2009, by ESA (European Space Agency), the European rocket Ariane V, seen as it lifts off, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, in Kourou, French Guyana. Arianespace wrapped up another successful year of operations with Friday's orbiting of the French Helios 2B military observation satellite, which was lofted on the seventh Ariane 5 launch in 2009. (AP Photo/P Baudon, ESA) ** NO SALES**
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In this photo provided on Saturday Dec. 19, 2009, by ESA (European Space Agency), the European rocket Ariane V, seen as it lifts off, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, in Kourou, French Guyana. Arianespace wrapped up another successful year of operations with Friday's orbiting of the French Helios 2B military observation satellite, which was lofted on the seventh Ariane 5 launch in 2009. (AP Photo/P Baudon, ESA) ** NO SALES**
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