British-born astronaut given CBE
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The British-born astronaut Michael Foale is rewarded in the New Year Honours with a CBE in the diplomatic list.
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Science & environment: UK must put British astronauts in space or risk missing out on significant scientific, economic and cultural benefits, say space experts.
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A proposal for the UK to join the International Space Station project is put forward by a group of scientists and engineers.
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Actor and comedian Hugh Laurie is made an OBE by the Queen during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
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A plan for the first British-led mission  to the Moon won the backing of an Anglo-American space  committee on Friday.
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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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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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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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_ One of NASA&#39;s first astronauts, Oklahoma native L. Gordon Cooper Jr., was remembered at the Johnson Space Center as ``not too bad of a water skier, not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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The organiser of the Glastonbury Festival is to receive an honorary degree.
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Retro Report May, 1991 - The first Briton into space blasted off yesterday - straight into the record books.   Helen Sharman, 27, was not only the first Briton in space, but also the first woman on a Soviet space mission since the 1984 voyage of Svetlana Savistskaya.
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A British soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan will be the first to be posthumously awarded the nation's highest military honour since the Falklands War, reports said.
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Former Reading Festival boss Vince Power becomes an honorary CBE for his services to the music industry.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Oct. 18, 2004 - The space station&#39;s newest astronaut will cast his ballot in the presidential election from 225 miles up, with NASA&#39;s help.
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In a promotion for a Canadian manufacturer of golf clubs, a Russian astronaut used a 6-iron to drive a 10-ounce golf ball off the International Space Station.
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John W. Young, Commander of First Shuttle Mission and NASA&#39;s Longest-Serving Astronaut, to Retire. HOUSTON Dec 8, 2004 - The longest serving astronaut in history, who flew twice to the moon and commanded
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The London-based architectural firm Foster + Partners has won the competition to design the world's first private spaceport.