Stunt pilots to snag a falling NASA craft
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NASA&#39;s three-year effort to bring some genuine star dust back to Earth is set for a dramatic finale Sept. 8 when Hollywood helicopter pilots will attempt a midair retrieval
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LOS ANGELES NASA is is hoping to up the ante when it comes to speed. Later today it&#39;ll set loose its third X-43-A &quot;scramjet&quot; over the Pacific Ocean.
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NASA engineers and researchers are gearing up to end a research program with a world-record flight approaching 7,000 mph. If weather permits, a wedge-shape X-43 unmanned craft will make the final
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NASA&#39;s newest astronaut candidates experienced their first taste of zero gravity and are now preparing to make their first jet flights without the company of instructors.
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An unidentified object orbiting below and at the same speed as Atlantis may have been shaken loose from the space shuttle, leading NASA officials to scramble to find out whether the vehicle remains safe to make the descent back to Earth.
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Scientists are hopeful they can retrieve particles of solar wind from a capsule that crashed last week.
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In a piece of aerial razzle-dazzle worthy of a James Bond movie, a NASA spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule into Earth&#39;s atmosphere Wednesday, and a helicopter waiting in the skies over
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The Genesis space capsule carrying solar wind particles will be plucked from nearly a mile above the Utah desert by stunt helicopter pilots whoâve replicated the retrieval, without fumbles, in nearly a dozen practice runs.
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An ambitious plan to pluck a falling space capsule from the sky with helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots went awry when the capsule&#39;s parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert.
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A daring plan to have helicopters snag a space capsule as it plunged toward Earth went awry Wednesday when its parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert floor.
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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na meeting of the cinematic with the scientific, Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a returning NASA space probe out of the air this morning before it hits the ground.
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A European spaceship is about to crash into the Moon. Amateur astronomers may be able to observe the impact.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - 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.    A pair of helicopters helmed by stunt pilots were set to hover nearly a mile above the Utah desert, ready to help snatch the refrigerator-sized capsule's parachute with a hook as it floats down at 400 feet a minute, or more than 6 feet per second...
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PASADENA (California) - Hollywood stunt pilots and Nasa scientists are teaming up to snatch a capsule full of stardust as it parachutes back to Earth next month.
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LAS VEGAS - A three-seat rocket plane with stubby wings and a nose studded with round windows will try to blast out of Earth&#39;s atmosphere above the Mojave Desert today to qualify for a US$10 million ($15.
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NASA&#39;s three-year effort to bring some genuine star dust back to Earth is set for a dramatic finale Sept. 8 when Hollywood helicopter pilots will attempt a midair retrieval of a descending space capsule.