Lift off for woman space tourist
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The first woman space tourist, US citizen Anousheh Ansari, blasts off on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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Space travel, education consultant Marie &quot;Mel&quot; Moreau says, is more than going up. &quot;Astronauts could not go up in space without people wanting to work as ground crew,&quot; she said. &quot;Proper communication is vitally important.
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NASA asked an astronaut aboard the international space station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that refuses to fold up properly.
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Traveling in space has been a desire for many since ages. Nevertheless, it only seems to be coming true in this millennium. Even though we are still years away from mass scale space tourism, the enthusiasm
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An American space tourist bound for the International Space Station (ISS) has begun training for his fall launch aboard a Russian rocket.
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NASA is hoping for a Monday liftoff for the Dawn spacecraft, a probe bound to visit the two largest asteroids in the solar system.
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Like millions of people fascinated by space, Anousheh Ansari said Wednesday she remembers wondering as a child if somebody else like her could be out there among the stars. Next month the Iranian-born U.S. entrepreneur can get a closer look, as she rides a Russian capsule to the international space station and becomes the first female space tourist.
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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The first female space tourist lands in northern Kazakhstan after a 10-day visit to the International Space Station.
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The capsule carrying the first paying female space tourist docked smoothly at the international space station Wednesday.
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A SALTIRE that has flown above the Scottish Parliament is to be taken into space.  Astronaut Nick Patrick, whose mother is from Skye, will be carrying the flag when he goes into space for the first time in December.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's only active female shuttle commander and a born flier are ready to launch into orbit next week to continue assembly of the International Space Station (ISS).
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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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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus may have the perfect gift idea for the loved one who wants to get away from it all: a space trip that includes a spectacular view of Earth and a chance to experience weightlessness.
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ORLANDO, Fla. _ On July 4th, Independence Day, Lisa Nowak triumphantly lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard shuttle Discovery. On Tuesday, 57 miles from the launch pad, she stood before a judge and wore shackles and a blue prisoner uniform.
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BAIKONUR, Sept 17 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Soyuz TMA-9 spaceship commander Mikhail Tyurin and flight engineer, NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, applauded the first ever female space tourist Anousheh Ansari's readiness for her journey to the International Space Station.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Before doing their heavy lifting in space, the astronauts on the shuttle Atlantis did lots of heavy lifting back on Earth.