Astronaut&#39;s Long Career Ends
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The longest serving astronaut in history, John W. Young, announced his retirement on Tuesday. Mr. Young, who has spent 42 years at the National Aeronautics and Space
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HOUSTON, March 7  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak's detail as a NASA astronaut has been terminated, effective March 8, by mutual agreement between NASA and the U.S. Navy.
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Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven original US astronauts, who made the nation&#39;s first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of &quot;The Right Stuff,&quot; died yesterday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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HOUSTON The NASA four-engine turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight today.
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Sean O&#39;Keefe resigned as NASA administrator on Monday, saying he is leaving the position he has held for three years to pursue better economic opportunity for his family.
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Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury  Seven astronauts who helped pioneer human space exploration,  piloting the last of the Mercury missions and the troubled  Gemini 5 flight, died on Monday. He was 77.
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L. Gordon Cooper Jr., one of the seven astronauts selected by the US space program for NASA&#39;s first space project in 1959, has died at his Ventura, California home.
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U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak, who was  arrested last month on charges she attempted to kidnap a  romantic rival, has been terminated from the astronaut corps,  NASA said on Wednesday.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan A US-Russian space crew is preparing to leave the International Space Station and return to Earth, ending a six-month mission.
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America&#39;s earliest space explorers bid farewell Friday to fellow Mercury 7 astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, whose toothy grin became a symbol of confidence and graceful daring as his country struggled to open a new frontier.
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Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria broke the U.S. record for 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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_ Gordon Cooper was the last astronaut to take flight during NASA&#39;s pioneering Mercury program, but he achieved many key firsts as he piloted Faith 7 capsule in May of 1963.
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Sean O'Keefe, who has spent three tumultuous years running the nation's space program, is resigning, the White House said Monday.
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Earlier this month, the US space program lost one of its most colorful pioneers - Leroy Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper Jr., one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, whose exploits and foibles
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Daniel M. Tani's 90-year-old mother died in an auto accident this week, but he has no way of getting home until late January. He must grieve from more than 200 miles away Â in orbit, aboard the international space station.
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe resigned on Monday after three tumultuous years at the U.S. space agency, which were shadowed by the fatal break-up of shuttle Columbia and its painful aftermath.
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.