Veteran Space Shuttle Commander Retires
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The only U.S. astronaut to command five space flights announced his retirement Tuesday, saying he wanted to pursue other interests, NASA said.
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BERLIN - Rainer Hertrich, a co-chief executive of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., will leave his position in 2005 when his contract expires, a company spokesman said Sunday.
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The longest serving astronaut in history, who flew twice to the moon and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has announced his retirement after 42 years at NASA.
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Leading Republican senator and Iraq war critic Chuck Hagel, who was considered a potential contender in the race for the presidency, announced plans to retire from politics Monday.
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NASA on Friday retired the B-52B jet that served as the "mothership" for a half-century of flight research projects ranging from the X-15 rocket planes of the 1960s to the X-43A hypersonic jet that flew at nearly 10 times the speed of sound last month.
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A veteran spacewalker and his rookie partner slipped outside the International Space Station on Saturday to complete a power rewiring job that should leave the outpost ready for the long-delayed addition of European and Japanese laboratories.
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Jeff Raikes, a 26-year veteran of Microsoft, plans to retire later this year and the company announced that it was reaching outside its ranks for his successor.
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By JOE STINEBAKER HOUSTON - An astronaut from the space shuttle Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a wobbly return that officials attributed to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Feb. 28--Dramatizing the fragility of the soon-to-be-retired space shuttle, NASA managers on Tuesday ordered Atlantis removed from the launch pad and rolled back to its hangar after a hail storm punched thousands of shallow gouges into the craft.
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Retired Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr. is proud his name is among a handful being mentioned as the next head of the US space agency.
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The space shuttle pilot at the center of a bizarre love triangle that included a former astronaut who now faces attempted kidnapping charges is leaving the space agency, NASA said Friday.  Cmdr.
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NASA -- Gordon Cooper Jr., the astronaut who piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini 5, died earlier today at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 years old...
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  and ERIN McCLAM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  ORLANDO, Fla.  In July, astronaut Lisa Nowak traveled 5.3 million miles in a single-minded mission to put America's beleaguered space shuttle program back on track.
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Merrill Lynch parts company with its chief executive Stan O'Neal, saying the 56-year-old has retired.
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WASHINGTON Dec 13, 2004 - Sean O&#39;Keefe, who has spent three tumultuous years running the nation&#39;s space program, is preparing to resign, a government official says.
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A veteran spacewalker and his rookie  partner slipped outside the International Space Station on  Saturday to complete a power rewiring job that should leave the  outpost ready for the long-delayed addition of European and  Japanese laboratories.
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Space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein, who was at the center of a love triangle involving a female astronaut facing an attempted kidnapping charge, has been discharged from NASA's astronaut corps and will return to active duty in the Navy, officials said Friday.