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Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. Today, astronaut Diego Urbina describes what it was like being locked inside a space capsule in Russia for almost 18 months as part of a simulated trip to Mars. Also, the Indonesian Muslim who was sent a letter bomb because of his campaign against extremism. And British woman, Rona Cant, who suddenly took up adventuring in middle age - she started by sailing the wrong way around the world. Rona's book is called Snow, Sleds and Silence: The Story of the Nordkapp Expedition and is published by Libri. (Image: Diego Urbina. Credit: AFP/Getty)
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