&#39;Rocket man&#39; has local ties
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com. &quot;It was a flawless flight and a glorious day for our family,&quot; said William Binnie. He, wife Catherine and daughters Sheila and Katie had good reason to celebrate on Monday.
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This is why Houston manager Phil Garner held Rogers Clemens back. And this is why the Astros lured The Rocket out of retirement last winter.
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Two men became friends by transforming their lives to become catalysts of community cooperation.
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Someday, when Roger Clemens has finally surrendered to the war against time and actually retires, his seventh Cy Young Award will be held up as proof that The Rocket was both man and machine
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The two have formed a mutual admiration club.
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The man behind Space Ship 1 brought his love of adventure to the University of Texas on Friday. Burt Rutan spoke to students about space tourism.
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One day last November in Houston, three men met for lunch. Two of them -- Russian cosmonauts in training for an upcoming joint US-Russian space mission -- had never met the third, a slightly built American gentleman in his seventies.
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The successful X-Prize mission of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne last week was a major success for the commercial space industry. But although that success has led to the creation of space
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.
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Other people might have been discouraged, but Eric Meier and Phillip Storm have been upbeat since their 23-foot-long Rubicon 1 rocket blew up last month in a test flight near Queets, Wash.
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By Ja'Rena Lunsford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 17--Rocketplane Kistler is one step closer to launching a demonstration flight to the International Space Station.
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By Steve Scott, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 14--While one Minnesotan walks in space, another is anchored at Houston Mission Control as the lead flight director of the Atlantis shuttle mission.
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With two short trips to the edge of space, the little rocket that could may have ushered in a new era in high-tech travel.
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By JOHN WIRT  The last time the Bottle Rockets played the Baton Rouge area, fireworks did indeed go off. "That night was a famous gig," said Brian Henneman, singer- guitarist with the St. Louis, Mo.-based alt-country-rock band.
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Aviation pioneer Burt Rutan has been fondly remembering his childhood hero - German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. The X-Prize victor recently hooked up with two surviving members of von Braun&#39;s V2 team
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Declaring himself &quot;here on business,&quot; hometown favorite Yao Ming joined Tracy McGrady and the rest of the Houston Rockets on Tuesday as they prepared for a pair of exhibition
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At the request of some of my foreign colleagues, I tried in the past few days to establish contact with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip to ask them about the IDF operation against their squads&#39; rocket attacks.