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Although known to be capable swimmers, a potential one-kilometre ocean swim by an echidna has landed it in hospital.

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The payload fairing at the top of Gilmour Space's first Eris rocket was supposed to deploy a few minutes after lifting off from northeastern Australia. Instead, the nose cone fell off the rocket ...