Solar Sail Craft to Be Launched in March
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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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SpaceShipOne, the world&#39;s first privately developed spaceship, is fueled and ready to embark this morning on a flight into space in a bid to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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PASADENA, Calif. There could be something new under the sun next year -- the first controlled flight by a spaceship designed to run off solar wind.
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Aug. 20, 2004  A small science satellite dispatched to just beyond Earth&#39;s magnetosphere returns to the home planet next month to deliver a most unique package: particles of the sun.
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The US space agency (Nasa) has pushed back the return to flight of the space shuttles until May at the earliest. The Discovery orbiter was due to launch in March or April on a mission to the International
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The United States   begins its next step in human space flight with the   announcement by NASA on Thursday of a contractor to design and   build spaceships to fly to the moon.
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Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to recreate the 101-day epic voyage - although the craft will have solar panels
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NASA is set to launch a spacecraft carrying five satellites on a mission to unveil the secrets of the origin of the aurora borealis.
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Entrepreneur Richard Branson on  Wednesday unveiled a model of the spaceship he hopes will be  the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular  basis next year.
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KOROLYOV (NEAR MOSCOW). Dec 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The main goal of the fourth space walk by astronauts from the Discovery shuttle, which is scheduled to take place on early December 19, is to fold a solar wing, NASA representative at Russian mission control Sergei Puzanov told Interfax-AVN.
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A space capsule set to plunge into Earth&#39;s atmosphere with a piece of the Sun this Wednesday has spawned additional projects ranging from spacecraft design to the detection of dangerous asteroids.
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By SONJA BARISIC  NORFOLK, Va. - A rocket carrying satellites for the Air Force and NASA is set to blast off Monday from the Virginia shore in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Thursday will attempt to launch its third space shuttle mission in six months, a healthy pace the agency needs to maintain to finish work on the International Space Station before the shuttles stop flying in four years.
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Within a converted barn on the Planetary Society&#39;s campus Tuesday, a group of scientists, engineers and volunteers began the countdown for a March launch of the
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Scientists in Costa Rica  have run a plasma rocket engine continuously for a record of  more than four hours, the latest achievement in a mission to  cut costs and travel time for spacecraft.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will decide whethe