First Malaysian in space returns to Earth
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Two Russian cosmonauts and the first Malaysian in space returned to Earth on Sunday in an unusually abrupt and off-target manner after leaving the orbiting the International Space Station, Russian mission control said.
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The world&#39;s first private astronaut, South African-born Mike Melvill, was jubilant as he returned safely from a harrowing roller-coaster ride into space that stopped the hearts of onlookers.
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A Soyuz craft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler left its docking port at the international space station on Sunday, starting a return trip to Earth, footage from Russian mission control showed.
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An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.
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MOSCOW -- An American female space tourist received roses and kisses from her husband yesterday after she returned to Earth in a cramped capsule with a two-man crew from the International Space Station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER 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. astronaut reached a milestone with the longest single spaceflight by any woman.
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The space shuttle Atlantis took off on a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station for the first time since the Columbia disaster.
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Atlantis returns to Earth after spacewalks and concerns of debris hitting the spacecraft
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A private manned rocket soared into space for a second time yesterday, landing successfully after an unexpectedly bumpy ride that nearly meant an early end to the team&#39;s bid to win a $10 million prize.
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First Iranian in space Russia's Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this Monday morning (04:09 GMT), notching up three "firsts" in the process. The pod atop the rocket carried Anousheh Ansari, and when the rocket entered orbit, she became the first female space tourist, as well as the first female Muslim and the first Iranian in space.â¦
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Re-usable craft can carry a 0.5-kilogram payload up one kilometer in three seconds.
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A Chinese businessman has paid $200,000 (about 103,000 pounds) to become his country's first space tourist, hoping for lift-off some time by the end of 2008.
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Russian and US spacemen have landed safely back on Earth after completing their mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Russians Yuri Shargin and Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke touched
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Mike Fincke, whose daughter became the first child born to an astronaut in orbit June 18, is preparing to return to Earth and his family in Texas.
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South Korea announced Wednesday that a 30-year-old robotics expert will be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year.
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The world&#39;s first private spaceship has blasted into the final frontier for the second time in five days, snatching the nearly 14-million dollar prize and founding a new era of space tourism.
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has brought back American and Russian astronauts from space. The capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan early today, precisely on time and on target.