Astronaut to Meet Baby Daughter on Return to Earth
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Days away from ending a six-month mission in space, US astronaut Michael Fincke said on Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting his 4-month-old daughter.
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A Russian-U.S. crew returned to Earth from the international space station Sunday in a pinpoint landing on the Kazakhstan steppe, and NASA's chief said the United States wanted to continue the joint relationship on future missions to Mars.
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Astronaut Daniel Tani, orbiting Earth aboard the international space station, learned Wednesday that his mother had died in a car crash, marking what NASA officials believe is the first time a crew member has lost a close family member while in flight.
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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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A Soyuz craft left its docking port at the international space station on Sunday, starting a return trip to Earth with two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler aboard.
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A Russian-U.S. crew returned to Earth from the international space station in a pinpoint landing on the Kazakhstan steppe, and NASA's chief said the United States wanted to continue the joint relationship on future missions to Mars.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The crew of the U.S.   space shuttle Atlantis returned to Florida on Saturday to   prepare for a new launch attempt on NASA's first International   Space Station assembly mission in nearly four years.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Astronaut Lisa Nowak carried copies of steamy e-mails that her NASA lover had written to his new girlfriend the night she raced cross-country in a diaper to confront her rival, according to documents released on Tuesday.
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Like millions of people fascinated by space, Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday she remembers wondering as a child if somebody else like her could be out there among the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule to the international space station and becomes the first female space tourist.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a US-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the International Space Station hurtled through the Earth's atmosphere and landed in Kazakhstan yesterday evening. The Soyuz TMA-4 carrying Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and American partner Mike Fincke touched down beneath a parachute at the targeted landing site, some 55 miles north ...
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By JULIA M. SCOTT  LOS ANGELES - Karen Stagliano talks to her 6-year-old daughter about nearly everything -- how her brain works, how astronauts breathe in space -- but they never talk openly about mommy's job.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft   was set to blast off on Monday carrying a woman who will   accomplish a trio of space firsts: the first female tourist,   first female Muslim, and first Iranian in orbit.
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Mike Fincke, whose daughter became the first child born to an astronaut in orbit June 18, is preparing to return to Earth and his family in Texas.
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Space station astronaut Dan Tani is drawing on the support of physicians and family after the unexpected death of his mother this week.
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A U.S. space shuttle astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and murder a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut arrived back in Houston on Wednesday after she was freed on bail in Florida.
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MOSCOW -- An American female space tourist received roses and kisses from her husband yesterday after she returned to Earth in a cramped capsule with a two-man crew from the International Space Station.
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By Jeremy Manier, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 11--Florida police would not say last week whether astronaut Lisa Nowak was wearing an official, NASA-issued diaper during her infamous cross-country trek to confront her romantic rival.