Space Capsule Heading Back to Earth
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah Sept. 8, 2004 - A space capsule holding atoms collected from solar wind was en route to a tricky rendezvous with Earth, offering scientists the first material NASA has brought back from space in nearly three decades.
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A Russian-US crew returned to Earth from the international space station Sunday in a pinpoint landing on the Kazakhstan steppe, and NASA&#39;s chief said the United States
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Space shuttle Atlantis headed for home  on Wednesday with NASA pushing to get it back to Earth before  the U.S. military tries to shoot a dead spy satellite out of  the sky.
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A Soyuz space capsule made a soft  landing in the steppes on Kazakhstan early on Sunday, bringing  a U.S.-Russian space trio back to earth from the International  Space Station.
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The first Malaysian astronaut in space returns safely to Earth from the International Space Station.
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Scientists are chomping at the bit for tomorrow&#39;s Earthly return of a sample capsule from NASA&#39;s Genesis spacecraft, hoping the star stuff it carries will help answer questions on the origins of the solar system and we who live in it.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - A space capsule returning  solar particles to Earth crashed in the Utah desert on  Wednesday after its parachute failed to open, but scientists  were hoping that the star dust inside might have been saved.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz capsule  carrying a U.S. astronaut and two cosmonauts is set to return  to Earth on Sunday, landing in darkness by parachute in the  barren steppe of northern Kazakhstan.
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The Genesis space capsule, which promised scientists potential clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth today.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz capsule  carrying a U.S. astronaut and two cosmonauts undocked from the  International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday to start a flight  back to the earth's surface.
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Space shuttle Atlantis headed for home on Wednesday with NASA pushing to get it back to Earth before the U.S. military tries to shoot a dead spy satellite out of the sky.
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A Soyuz craft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler left its docking port at the international space station on Sunday, starting a return trip to Earth, footage from Russian mission control showed.
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The Atlantis shuttle detaches from the International Space Station in preparation to return to Earth.
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The Atlantis orbiter is set to return to Earth after installing Europe's Columbus science lab on the space station.
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Anousheh Ansari's trip of a lifetime is to come to an end early Friday, when a space capsule brings the world's first paying female space tourist back to Earth.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the international space station hurtled through the Earth's atmosphere and landed in Kazakhstan on Saturday evening.
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Scientists are now optimistic some valuable data can be salvaged from the wrecked capsule of the solar mission.