Pilot Completes 1st Stage of Space Flight
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MOJAVE, Calif. - Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere Wednesday, completing the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize...
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His first space flight was in 1965 when he piloted the first manned Gemini mission. Later he made two trips to the moon -- orbiting during a 1969 flight and then walking on the lunar surface during a mission in 1972.
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NASA's  newest&nbsp;astronaut candidates&nbsp;experienced their first taste of zero gravity and are now preparing&nbsp;to make their first jet flights without the company of instructors.
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By Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--Alaska's first astronaut has been in space about a week, and so far Bill Oefelein's trip from Last Frontier to Final Frontier has been a smooth ride.
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MOJAVE, Calif. - He was told to abort the bumpy flight, but the pilot of a spiraling space rocket stayed at it, and successfully flew into space and back.
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A test pilot took a privately funded rocket to space and is now starting back, setting the stage to win a $10 million prize.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - For the international space station's newest crew member, his first week aboard the orbiting outpost was anything but routine.
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The multi-billion dollar Anglo-American Joint Strike Fighter successfully completes its maiden test flight.
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(CBS/AP) Space station commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Michael Fincke completed a five-hour 21-minute spacewalk, successfully installing a new coolant system component and three antennas that an unmanned European cargo craft will use for
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A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off Monday on a flight to the international space station.
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By Mike Eckel THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off today on a flight to the international space station.
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A new crew arrived safely at the International Space Station on Saturday morning, despite a glitch that required the cosmonaut pilot to manually fly their Soyuz spaceship the last few hundred feet to its parking spot.
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SpaceShipOne, the Paul Allen-backed venture that&#39;s attempting to take paying passengers into suborbital space for the first time, has completed the first leg of its effort to win a $10 million prize.
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French doctors are carrying out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero-gravity, using a specially-adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
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com. NASA&#39;s newest astronaut candidates experienced their first taste of zero gravity and are now preparing to make their first jet flights without the company of instructors.
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A stubby rocket plane touched down safely in the Mojave desert yesterday to claim a dual prize: the first private, crewed spacecraft to fly two successful missions within
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WASHINGTON -- NASA's next shuttle astronauts to fly, a blend of veteran spaceflyers and rookies, are in the final month of training for a March construction flight to the International Space Station (ISS).