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Court ruled Microsoft a monopoly in computer operating systems. China carried out its first experimental flight of its own spaceship. The descent module landed in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous District. He closed with a look at tomorrow's Interplanetary Internet. Mars Polar Lander and the accompanying Deep Space 2 microprobes fail to signal NASA from the Red Planet's South Pole.