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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Scientists are now optimistic some valuable data can be salvaged from the wrecked capsule of the solar mission.
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NASA scientists said yesterday they had recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule that fell to Earth this week and were hopeful the mission to gather solar atoms could be salvaged.
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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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Atlantis returns to Earth after spacewalks and concerns of debris hitting the spacecraft
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has brought back American and Russian astronauts from space. The capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan early today, precisely on time and on target.
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Russian and US crew will return to earth, leaving two men on 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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TONY EASTLEY: A space capsule returning to earth with a payload of solar particles has crashed into the desert in Utah after its parachutes failed to open.
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The advent of space tourism is one step closer with the safe return this week of a private manned rocketship from âthe edge of spaceâ.
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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 Atlantis shuttle detaches from the International Space Station in preparation to return to Earth.
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The Discovery space shuttle undocked from the International Space Station to begin its journey back to Earth after an eight day construction visit.
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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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Scientists are optimistic that they will retrieve useful information from the smashed capsule that fell to earth in the Utah desert after three years in space.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a US astronaut and two cosmonauts is set to return to Earth on Sunday, landing in darkness by parachute in the barren steppe of northern Kazakhstan.