Women's spacewalk record broken
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US astronaut Sunita Williams has now spent more time walking in space than any other woman.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft   blasted off on Monday carrying a woman set to notch up three   space records: the first female tourist, first female Muslim,   and first Iranian in orbit.
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By Joe Stinebaker Associated Press  HOUSTON -- An astronaut collapsed twice Friday, a day after she returned to Earth in the shuttle Atlantis, and officials attributed her wobbles to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts have been so productive that they have only one more item to complete from their original spacewalk to-do list.  A circuit breaker pushed today's spacewalk back by about 45 minutes; it's now due to start at 6 a.m. EDT.
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The first trip by a female space tourist, who was due to blast off September 14 on a Russian Soyuz vessel bound for the International Space Station, may be put off by four days, officials have said.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Two U.S. astronauts planned to make the fourth spacewalk in a week on Sunday, as critical Russian computers which had failed last week in the international space station continued their recovery to normal operations.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper pokes her head out of an airlock Tuesday to begin installing a new addition to the international space station, she will join an elite club of women who have gone on spacewalks.
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A record-setting daredevil and the first American woman in space are among five people slated for induction Saturday to the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
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Yelena Isinbayeva wins the battle of the Russians and sets a new world record.
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Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria broke the U.S. record of most time walking in space Thursday as he and another astronaut did maintenance work outside the international space station during their third spacewalk in nine days.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER "Suni" Williams breaks a 1996 record for time on a space flight by a woman.  HOUSTON -- Atlantis was cleared Saturday to return to Earth this coming week after the space shuttle's heat shield was judged capable of surviving the intense heat of re-entry, and a U.S.
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The Russian space agency on Thursday postponed by four days its launch next month of a Soyuz capsule carrying an American who is the first female space tourist to the international space station, a spokesman said.
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Russia&#39;s Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own world record in the pole vault last night to win a showdown with teammate Svetlana Feofanova for the gold with an effort of 16 feet 1Â¼ inches.
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By Andrew Buncombe  From the steppes of Kazakhstan, a wealthy Iranian-American woman was blasted off into space yesterday. In doing so, Anousheh Ansari set at least two records - becoming the first female Muslim and the first Iranian in orbit.
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Two Shuttle Discovery astronauts have helped retract a stuck solar energy array on the International Space station in a record-breaking fourth spacewalk on a single mission.
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The flight of the world's first female space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) will be put off by four days because of delays in launching the US space shuttle, the Russian space agency Roskosmos has said.
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft  blasted off on Monday carrying a woman set to notch up three  space records: the first female tourist, first female Muslim,  and first Iranian in orbit.