EDITORIAL: The Tough Stuff: Shuttle Astronauts Surmount Numerous Hurdles While Boosting Manned Outpost's Celestial Profile.
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By Houston Chronicle  Jun. 23--If overcoming adversity is a criterion for a successful venture into space, the 14-day mission of the shuttle Atlantis to the international space station ranks high on the list of most productive flights.
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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space station flight controllers on Tuesday began the delicate task of unfurling the outpost's new solar power wings, which two spacewalking astronauts installed during the first major task of shuttle Atlantis' 13-day flight.
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By Anonymous  NASA has worked hard to promote its new mission of manned flights to the moon and eventually Mars.
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Astronauts made a tricky job look easy on Tuesday when they used a robot arm to latch a 17.5 tonne solar power girder to its new home at the end of the International Space Station.
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By Nolan Rosenkrans, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 23--Despite the remarkable technical feat of space travel and the high-level skills that astronauts need, being one isn't quite as prestigious as it used to be.
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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.
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Keeping an astronaut crew in tip-top shape during lengthy treks to and from distant Mars may demand portable gravity.
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In the quest for a cheaper route to space, astronauts competing for the X Prize are willing to take risks. But some wonder if blasting off in an untested rocket ship suspended from a giant balloon is taking things too far. By Dan Brekke.
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From the dawn of the space program, America's astronauts have been treated like stars, saluted as red-white-and-blue heroes, and indoctrinated in NASA's can-do, failure-is-not-an-option ethos.
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US space shuttle Discovery blasted off successfully Tuesday on an ambitious, complex mission to the International Space Station, key to future manned flights to Mars.
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Shuttle Atlantis astronauts said on  Saturday that, despite a few glitches, they had gotten NASA off  to a good start in its push to complete construction of the  half-finished International Space Station by 2010.
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By RASHA MADKOUR HOUSTON - The space shuttle Discovery crew scored another day floating in the cosmos - precious time for the majority-rookie flight - but it'll hardly be a walk in the orbital park.
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Last July, Lisa Nowak was on top of the world. Clad in the bright orange uniform of a United States astronaut, she smiled and posed for the cameras before setting off on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station high above planet Earth. But how the mighty can fall.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Spacewalking astronauts  coaxed a balky solar wing panel on the International Space  Station into its storage box Monday, capping a tedious but  ultimately successful mission by the shuttle Discovery crew.
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The US space shuttle Discovery headed for the International Space Station after a spectacular nighttime liftoff from Florida which NASA described as its most technically challenging.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station and the visiting shuttle Discovery tumbled into a spanking new room on Saturday, the first addition to the orbital outpost in six years.