Malaysia Unveils Two Final Male Astronaut Candidates
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Malaysia unveils two final male astronaut candidates    KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia on Monday announced the final two astronaut candidates, a medical officer and a dentist,one of whom will be the first person going to space in the country' s history.
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China said Thursday that its second manned space mission will take place in September or October 2005 and will involve two astronauts orbiting for up to five days.
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WASHINGTON - Malaysia&#39;s debut spaceflyer, the first female commander of International Space Station (ISS) and a veteran Russian cosmonaut are gearing up for their orbital mission this fall.
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Space station astronauts Gennady Padalka and American Mike Fincke are scheduled to make the final spacewalks of their mission today.
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The team behind the Beagle 2 mission has unveiled its design for a successor to the British Mars lander.
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HOUSTON -- 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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Smoothly and ahead of schedule, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke completed the fourth and final spacewalk of their six-month mission today.
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China gave a rare glimpse Wednesday of astronauts preparing for its second manned space mission, with state television showing trainees in simulated zero gravity doing somersaults and holding up the national flag.
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The blast-off in a Soyuz spacecraft from Russia&#39;s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will deploy a replacement crew for Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, who have manned the orbital platform since April.
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Russian and US crew will return to earth, leaving two men on the International Space station.
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Astronaut hopefuls with the right stuff have a fresh chance to reach for the International Space Station and, ultimately, the moon, thanks to a new NASA hunt for qualified spaceflyers.
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The replacement crew for the International Space Station started two days of preflight exams Monday, part of final preparations to relieve the two-man Russian-American crew finishing a six-month mission.    Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S...
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Malaysia has unveiled its first astronaut, a 34-year-old doctor who will blast off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and visit the International Space Station in September 2007.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket is due to blast off from the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan early Thursday. Astronaut Leroy Chiao and cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipovalso will observe conditions on
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China has announced that is to send a second manned mission to space in 2005, signaling a firm commitment to its emerging space programme.
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Description: At least two people won&#39;t be gaining weight over the holidays -- astronaut Leroy Chiao and cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov.
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First Iranian in space Russia's Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this Monday morning (04:09 GMT), notching up three "firsts" in the process. The pod atop the rocket carried Anousheh Ansari, and when the rocket entered orbit, she became the first female space tourist, as well as the first female Muslim and the first Iranian in space.â¦