Friday, June 18, 2010
Members of the Afghanistan women's national boxing team take part in a training session on May 3, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. After facing years of restrictions and oppression during the period of Taliban rule, Afghan women are again able to make use of sports clubs and private gyms and the national boxing team have sets their sights on competing at the London 2012 Olympics
A Kuchi tribal girl urges a camel to hasten on its way towards their tent as the sun sets on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 23, 2010. As Afghanistan's population grows, competing claims over summer pastures, both for rainfed cultivation and for grazing of the settled communities' livestock, have created conflict over land across central and northern Afghanistan and made life more difficult for this nomadic tribe
This photo taken on April 16, 2010 shows a giant NASA science balloon being inflated at the launch site near Alice Springs, Australia. The same balloon crashed during take-off on April 29, 2010 smashing its multi-million USD payload. The balloon, the size of a football field when inflated is designed to float up to 40 kilometers (25 miles), deep in the stratosphere to measure X-rays and gamma rays sent out by various stars and galaxies, then flutter back down to the Alice Springs launch site
Balloons that have just taken off from the runway of Bristol International Airport fly towards the sun as it rises over Bristol on June 12 2009 in Bristol, England. In total 25 balloons were launched at 5am, before the runway opened to aircraft at the busy airport, as a preview flight for the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in Augus
The Bullet 580, the world's largest inflatable airship, stands in Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, Alabama, Wednesday, May 19, 2010, following an inflation test and fit check. The airship will be flight tested later in the summer and will carry a joint NASA and Old Dominion University payload that will measure moisture content in soil. In addition to government research work, the airship can also be used for military, homeland security and disaster relief missions. It is designed to carry payloads of up to 2,000 pounds to 20,000 feet
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