Russian cosmonaut hits golf ball into orbit
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Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin hit a golf ball into Earth's orbit from the International Space Station on Wednesday to raise money for the Russian space program at the start of a six-hour spacewalk.
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A grocery tycoon and politician who planted a flag on the North Pole&#39;s seabed last month will now go into orbit as the first Russian space tourist, leading business daily Vedomosti said on Monday.
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Scott Verplank, who became the first American to hit a Ryder Cup hole in one at the K Club in Ireland in 2006, will receive the keys to a $150,000 yacht if he can repeat the feat at next week's Qatar Masters.
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Russia successfully launches Europe's most powerful telecommunications satellite.
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Russia on Thursday carried out a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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A Russian cosmonaut-turned-golfer took his game out of this world, knocking a ball from the International Space Station in a publicity stunt for a Canadian golf club manufacturer.
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An updated version of Russia&#39;s venerable Soyuz rocket took its first flight Monday, placing a dummy satellite into orbit during a successful qualification launch.
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A ball hit by Rob Lowe during a celebrity golf game hit the Iowa state bird in mid-flight Wednesday.
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NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 28: Local golf fans are in for a treat: For the first time ever, the sportâs top-ranked player will be in India.
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A MANNED private rocketship burst through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere into space today after a hair-raising ascent, putting it half-way towards winning a $US10 million ($13.
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Oct. 4, 2004, on the 47th anniversary of Russia&#39;s launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, history was again made in space.
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BERLIN, Nov. 16 -- A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, marking a key milestone in Europe&#39;s first successful mission to the moon and setting the stage for the craft to begin studying the lunar
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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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The first woman space tourist, US citizen Anousheh Ansari, blasts off on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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Progress M-51 blasted off from the remote cosmodrome in the Kazakhstan steppes at 1:19 am Moscow time (Thursday 2219 GMT). The ship is expected to arrive at the international space station Sunday morning with
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An American space tourist bound for the International Space Station (ISS) has begun training for his fall launch aboard a Russian rocket.
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Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin smacked a golf  ball into orbit off the International Space Station on  Wednesday to raise money for the Russian space program during a  spacewalk cut short by a balky spacesuit.