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In this image made off the screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center and released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft (left) docks with the Tiangong-1 space lab module shortly after 2 p.m. Beijing time (2 a.m. EDT) on Monday, June 18, 2012, 213 miles above Earth. (AP Photo/Beijing Aerospace Control Center via Xinhua)

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A National Guardsman stops a motorist from driving down Highway 14 north of Laporte, Colo., on Thursday, June 17, 2012, as a stubborn wildfire burns in northern Colorado. (Associated Press)

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Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (center), Liu Wang (left) and Liu Yang sit inside the capsule after the launch of China's manned Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Shenzhou-9 blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. (Associated Press)

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Fires erupt on a ridge over a Boy Scouts camp east of Red Feather Lakes, Colo., on Sunday as a stubborn wildfire continues to burn in northern Colorado. Crews are facing powerful winds as they battle the blaze that has scorched about 86 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. (Associated Press)

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A 10-person crew along with a rescue dog and handler searched for four Japanese climbers on Alaska's Mount McKinley on Saturday. Evidence suggests that the climbers were swept into a deep crevasse by an avalanche on Wednesday and are dead. (National Park Service via Associated Press)

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In this Friday, June 15, 2012 photo provided by the National Park Service, climbers hike through the area where an avalanche swept a Japanese climbing team off a hill during their descent from Alaska's Mount McKinley. U.S. National Park Service officials say five people were traveling as a one rope team early Thursday morning as part of a Miyagi Workers Alpine Federation expedition on the Alaska mountain. The NPS said Hitoshi Ogi, 69, survived after falling 60 feet (18 meters) into a crevasse. He was able to climb out. The other four tumbled into the avalanche debris and haven't been seen since. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Kevin Wright)

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In this Sept. 11, 2011 photo, clouds obscure a portion of Mount McKinley, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)