Patient Columbus set for voyage
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Europe hopes finally to get its space station laboratory, Columbus, into orbit this Thursday.
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TELLURIDE, COLORADO -- Better make room for an extra crewmember aboard any spaceship heading outward. This person wont require food, oxygen or water, nor even need to buckle up for safety. The tag-along traveler could, however, be a lifesaver in terms of getting the expedition to and from a celestial destination.
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The redesigned external fuel tank that will help propel Discovery on the first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia accident is set to leave New Orleans on Friday, beginning
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first paying female space tourist said Friday she felt a little queasy on her rocket ride to the international space station but she since has been enjoying every minute of her cosmic trip.
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Investigators are trying to determine the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal infections on an island in Ohio. More than 1,000 visitors to South Bass Island in Lake Erie
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HOUSTON  -- Shuttle Atlantis astronauts will take  a closer look at a minor tear in their ship's heat shield on  Sunday after an undisclosed medical issue sidelined plans for a  spacewalk to install Europe's Columbus laboratory on the  International Space Station, NASA officials said.
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By Mike Lafferty  COLUMBUS  --  The George Dunbar left Cleveland at 6 p.m. on June 29, 1902, bound for Alpena, Mich.  Loaded with coal, the 136-foot ship rode low in the water as it steamed northwest into rough Lake Erie weather, her boilers running full steam.
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French doctors are set to carry out the first operation on a human patient under zero-gravity inside an aircraft.
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Traveling in space has been a desire for many since ages. Nevertheless, it only seems to be coming true in this millennium. Even though we are still years away from mass scale space tourism, the enthusiasm
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PARIS, Dec 2 (IPS) - To compare him to Charles Darwin or Alexander von   Humboldt might be too much. But French explorer Jean-Louis  Etienne is  proposing an effort similar to these giants as he  heads to Clipperton, a  tiny Pacific island 1,300 km southwest of  the Mexican resort of Acapulco.
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French doctors prepare to carry out the first operation on a human in "weightless" conditions aboard an aircraft.
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Experts are to open a tomb in the Dominican Republic to see if it holds the remains of Christopher Columbus.
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An explorer plans in March to lead an expedition designed to settle a century-old debate over whether the American explorer Robert Peary was the first to reach the North Pole, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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In an enterprising combination of tourism and health care, people are taking a high-speed ferry cruise across scenic Puget Sound to British Columbia, and getting a flu shot, too.
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A transatlantic flight from London to   Boston had to make an emergency diversion after one passenger   made an unexpected early arrival.
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HOUSTON  -- Shuttle Atlantis astronauts will take a closer look at a minor tear in their ship's heat shield on Sunday after an undisclosed medical issue sidelined plans for a spacewalk to install Europe's Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station, NASA officials said.
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PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio Aug. 20, 2004  Diane Mahdinel arrived Friday on Lake Erie&#39;s South Bass Island with her own bottled water, sandwiches and hand sanitizer. She didn&#39;t want to take any chances with a mysterious illness that has sickened hundreds of ...