Stunt pilots to hook falling stardust sample
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A piece of the Sun is set to fall to Earth and be captured by Hollywood stunt pilots in a tricky mid-air manoeuvre, NASA announced on Thursday.
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When the Genesis capsule comes back to Earth with its samples of the sun, helicopter pilots will be waiting for it, ready to snag it out of the sky.
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Collisions between comets may be kicking up copious amounts of dust observed around a dead star.
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I have been to zero gravity and flown like Superman. This is something that only astronauts and the stars of Apollo 13 have done before.
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Tonight's annual Perseid meteor shower is likely to be a spectacular show of shooting stars zipping across the night sky, according to astronomers.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - A three-seat rocket plane with  stubby wings and a nose studded with round windows will try to  blast out of Earth's atmosphere above the Mojave desert on  Wednesday to qualify for a $10-million prize designed to spur  commercial space travel.
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The Genesis desert crash has left scientists wondering about the delicate condition of its solar wind collection. The first release of samples to the community has begun, while new tests for oxygen-isotopes may help uncover which particles might have lunar, solar or terrestrial origins.
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Imagine a drive-in movie screen that floats 1,000 feet in the air &amp;#151; and travels 15 mph. An Orlando-based blimp company called The Lightship Group has effectively made one, and it could be coming to a night sky near you.
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PASADENA, CALIF. - Helicopter stunt pilots from Hollywood will attempt a tricky mid-air capture Wednesday, as they try to snag the returning Genesis spacecraft and its collection of solar dust.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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Explosions. Storms. Waves. CGI ace Jos Stam is creating a physics machine that can make special effects look absolutely, completely real.
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A company plans to offer airplane flights that simulate weightlessness in space. Zero Gravity Corp. starting Oct. 9 will offer twice-a-month, $2,950 flights on planes that carry 27 passengers
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Scientists in California on Friday began examining for the first time samples of solar wind particles collected by the spacecraft Genesis, which crashed earlier this month in the Utah desert when its parachutes failed to open on landing.
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By Wire Reports  Video:  Tiny Parts Lost in Space     Video:  Passenger Disrupts Cross-Country Flight     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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Moonlighting Hollywood stunt pilots and NASA scientists are teaming up to snatch a returning space capsule in midair over central Utah next month.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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