SKorea selects first astronaut
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South Korea announced Wednesday that a 30-year-old expert in artificial intelligence will be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year.
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KOROLYOV, Russia  - The capsule carrying the first paying female space tourist docked smoothly at the international space station Wednesday.
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Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - breaking the nearly 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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A FOUNDING father of space exploration is landing in Glasgow to help inspire science students.  In 1965 Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, now 73, became the first man to walk in space. He will be recalling his space adventures to help launch Careers Scotland's Festival of Science.
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China&#39;s first manned spaceship, the Shenzhou V, was launched in October last year with one Chinese astronaut aboard for a one-day flight.
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The first Malaysian astronaut in space returns safely to Earth from the International Space Station.
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Two astronauts begin the first spacewalk of the latest shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
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The two astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) complete the first space walk of their mission.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to his South Korean counterpart, Roh Moo-hyun, that Russia would help train the first South Korean astronaut for a space flight, local media reported Tuesday.
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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¦
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French astronaut Leopold Eyharts has been named for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) to set up Europe's Columbus science module, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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Text of report in English by South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo website on 20 February  The two candidates vying to become the country's first astronaut will head for Russia on Feb. 27 for a year of training.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- This week&#39;s trip to the international space station will be the cosmonauts&#39; first flight in a Soyuz spacecraft -- a rupture with the 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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Michael Melvill, who earned commercial astronaut's wings by piloting SpaceShipOne's history-making flight earlier this year, was selected to fly the first X Prize flight Wednesday.
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By MIKE ECKEL BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - An Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur took off Monday on a Russian rocket bound for the international space station, achieving her dream of becoming the the world's first paying female space tourist.
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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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French doctors set off to carry out the first operation on a human being under zero-gravity.