Sail away into space
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The ancient art of sailing gets a space-age update next year with the launch of the first sunlight-propelled &quot;solar sail&quot; spacecraft.
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pioneering bid to win a $10 million (5.6 million pounds) prize and prove that space is open for business. space travel as ordinary as a Caribbean cruise.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Two astronauts floated outside the international space station Wednesday to help fold up a solar wing and bring to life a rotating joint that will allow a new pair of solar arrays to track the sun.
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HOUSTON -- Seven astronauts aboard NASA&#39;s shuttle Atlantis cast off from the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday, leaving the orbital laboratory with a more balanced look after installing new starboard solar wings.
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A solar sail spacecraft designed to be propelled by the pressure of sunlight will be launched early next year, The Planetary Society said Tuesday.
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A NASA spacecraft hurtling away from Earth has caught the first glimpse of its distant destination: the dwarf planet Pluto.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Shuttle Discovery astronauts undocked their craft from the International Space Station on Tuesday and prepared to begin the journey home to Earth.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A spacewalking NASA astronaut pitched two large pieces of obsolete equipment off the International Space Station and into orbit on Monday.
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By Martin Merzer and Phil Long, The Miami Herald  Jun. 3--CAPE CANAVERAL -- It's a whole different kind of launch countdown: More than eight years and . . . still counting for many NASA astronauts who have done everything except, you know, fly in space.
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Summary - (Nov 10, 2004) The countdown has begun for the launch of the Planetary Society&#39;s Cosmos 1 spacecraft; the first ever to be powered by a solar sail.
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America&#39;s Leroy Chiao and two cosmonauts embarked on &quot;an entirely new adventure&quot; late Wednesday night, blasting off from the Kazakhstan desert aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship bound for the International Space Station.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan - The Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US-Russian crew pulled away from the international space station early Sunday, ending a six-month mission in orbit and starting a fast journey back to Earth.
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SpaceShipOne, on a quest to win $10 million, spun unexpectedly as it rocketed toward space Wednesday, but apparently went into space for the second time.
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MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA -- While SpaceShipOneâs wispy contrail from sky to space quickly vanished into the thin desert air here, Mondayâs flight at Mojave Spaceport left a solid line in the sand -- to create a &quot;new space age&quot; of personal space travel.
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Rocket plane SpaceShipOne is attempting a second space flight in a bid to clinch the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. Judges officially confirmed that pilot Mike Melvill took the craft to 64 miles on Wednesday&#39;s first flight.
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LOS ANGELES - A private spacecraft is to shoot beyond Earth&#39;s atmosphere for the second time in a week today in a bid to win a US$10 million ($15 million) prize and prove that space is open for business.
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Strapped in, flat on their backs, passengers will accelerate to 4000km/h in just 25 seconds. For no more than five minutes they will float about, 130km above planet Earth.