One small step for space travel
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MARK COLVIN: Space travel is a childhood dream, but today it got a little closer to adult reality, for the wealthy, at any rate. The prototype private space vessel &quot;SpaceShipOne&quot; made a mostly successful manned test flight over the American Mojave Desert.
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite.
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HOUSTON -- Two spacewalking astronauts will step outside the International Space Station (ISS) later today to complete efforts to rewire the orbital laboratory and, time permitting, give a stubborn solar array a little push.
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By RASHA MADKOUR CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two spacewalking astronauts Tuesday began installing the first big addition to the international space station in more than 3 1/2 years, and NASA pronounced the outing a success, even though a small bolt floated off and got lost.
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any landing you walk away from is a good one - might have to be amended: &quot;but you have to be able to afford the fuel to fly in the first place.
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While the exploration of the Moon and other planets in our solar system is&nbsp;exciting, the first task for astronauts and robots alike is to actually&nbsp;get to those destinations.
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much
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Tiny sensors, shaped like tumbleweed and small enough to fit inside a blood vessel, might one day ride to space inside astronauts' bodies, warning the space travelers when radiation is damaging their cells.
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Ordinary people are being given the chance to have their name go into space with the first X-Prize contender craft.
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A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above   the south pole of the Sun last week, giving   scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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Here's a little trick that can make all the difference.
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The installation of new solar panels on the International Space Station by the shuttle Atlantis crew marks just one stage in the difficult task of completing the orbital laboratory by 2010.
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Hitching a ride on the space shuttle comes only to the lucky few, but the Kennedy Space Center has developed a ride that just may be the next best thing.
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Unless, that is, you follow a few simple steps.
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Comment is free: Charles Kennedy: Space is the premium a leader needs to achieve success, but the demands of a small party make it hard to come by
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As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his "one small step" onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with the lunar surface. The ghostly images of the astronaut's boot touching the soil record what may be...
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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus may have the perfect gift idea for the loved one who wants to get away from it all: a space trip that includes a spectacular view of Earth and a chance to experience weightlessness.