Spacecraft reaches its goal on white-knuckle first leg
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Kern County -- The first privately funded rocket to reach space completed the first half of a $10 million flight competition Wednesday by soaring to an altitude of 64 miles -- but only after enduring a white-knuckle series of barrel rolls.
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French doctors set off to carry out the first operation on a human being under zero-gravity.
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SpaceShipOne completed the first leg of its bid for a &#36;10-million civilian space prize with a wild corkscrew-like ascent into space above the California desert on Wednesday.
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Europe&#39;s unmanned SMART-1 probe established itself in orbit around the moon today after being captured by the moon&#39;s gravitational pull.
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Things are looking up for the team at Scaled Composites and Paul Allen. The group successfully completed the first privately manned space flight on June 21st.
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The People have chose to brand the ball rather to send it to space.
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NASA sets a rocket in motion toward a comet, hoping to gain knowledge of the comet's makeup.
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A swarm of NASA flight controllers, astronauts and engineers have reached one step closer to returning to space agency's shuttle program to launch status, performing the first of many full-scale simulations for its first return-to-flight mission.
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It was the starting point for dozens of commercial communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering space probes, including the first man-made object to journey outside our solar system.
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Two astronauts begin the first spacewalk of the latest shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
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Space is the one frontier that&#39;s out of reach to the average person, but the feeling of space travel is now a little less elusive.
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MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - Human    flight took a significant step forward today as the privately built SpaceShipOne    flew into suborbital space for the second time in five days, apparently securing    the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize.
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A European spacecraft was on course to zip past Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet.
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The smooth landing concluded a mission that marked NASAÂs resumption of construction on the International Space Station.
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Shuttle Atlantis roared into space soaring toward the International Space Station for the first construction mission since the 2003 Columbia tragedy.
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A NASA spacecraft lifted off on Wednesday on the first leg of a six-month journey to blast a hole in a comet and study what lies beneath.
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Two spacewalking astronauts Tuesday began installing the first big addition to the international space station in more than 3 1/2 years, and NASA pronounced the outing a success, even though a small bolt floated off and got lost.