'Weightless Wonder' Makes Final Flight
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The NASA turbojet notoriously known as the "vomit comet" for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight Friday. Few among the two dozen seasoned passengers aboard got sick.
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The last of the seven Project Mercury astronauts who pioneered US space exploration in the 1960s remembered one of their own as a fearless pilot with the &quot;right stuff&quot; in
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The worldâs biggest jumbo jet landed safely in Sydney, ending its first commercial flight from Singapore.
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LucidBeast writes &quot;We all remember Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world in 1986 on one tank of gas. Now Voyager pilot Steve Fossett plans to do it solo with a jet powered GlobalFlyer.
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An enormous white zeppelin described as the world's largest successfully completed its maiden flight on Friday in Japan.
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NASA on Tuesday successfully conducted the final and fastest test flight of an unmanned experimental jet, at a record nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or 11,260 km per hour, it is reported.
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NASA's  newest&nbsp;astronaut candidates&nbsp;experienced their first taste of zero gravity and are now preparing&nbsp;to make their first jet flights without the company of instructors.
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By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts glided to a safe landing in darkness early Thursday, ending a 12-day mission whose smooth success was briefly upstaged by the high drama caused by mysterious floating debris.
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Seiko Epson Corp. announced Wednesday it had developed the world&#39;s lightest flying microrobot, with a weight of just 8.6 grams without its battery, or 12.3 grams with the battery installed.
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MERIGNAC, France -- Braving queasy stomachs, a team of French doctors took to the skies yesterday for the first operation on a human being in zero-gravity conditions, removing a cyst from the arm of a man as the aircraft soared and dived to create weightlessness.
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NASA managers said the craft showed no sign of damage, and they cleared it to land early Thursday.
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MOJAVE, CALIF: Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday morning in a flight that had equal measures of white-knuckle moments and triumph.
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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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The record-setting speed by the X-43A experimental scramjet engine on Tuesday marked the final operational mission for NASA&#39;s B-52B test aircraft.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle   Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida   on Monday, ending a 13-day mission that may signal NASA's full   recovery from the 2003 Columbia disaster.
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The smooth landing concluded a mission that marked NASAÂs resumption of construction on the International Space Station.
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U.S. millionaire adventurer Steve  Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights by plane and  balloon, has disappeared over the Nevada desert after taking  off in a small plane to scout sites for an attempt to set a  world land speed record, authorities said on Tuesday.