Shuttle Crew Among the Most Diverse
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery's seven astronauts are among the most culturally diverse of any space shuttle crew.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - With the successful Wednesday landing of NASA's shuttle Atlantis, the stage is set for a busy year of construction at the International Space Station (ISS).
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HOUSTON -- The astronaut crews of NASA's shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station (ISS) lauded their joint mission as it passed the halfway mark Friday.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - Space became a tad more crowded Monday morning, but the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis prepared to ease that congestion and go home after one last inspection of its critical heat shield.
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As the tenth  crew of the International Space Station (ISS) tends to its orbital home this  month, the station itself marks its fourth year with humans continuously living  onboard.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered into space tonight.  Liftoff came right on schedule at 8:47 p.m.
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By Martin MerzerCAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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The crew of the shuttle's next flight get a taste for life on board as they prepare for launch just weeks away.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - For the international space station's newest crew member, his first week aboard the orbiting outpost was anything but routine.
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Atlantis' seven-man crew is short on space experience, but that's on purpose. NASA wants to give as many rookie astronauts a shot at space before the shuttles are retired in less than three years.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The crew of space shuttle Discovery arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday for the countdown ahead of next week's launch on a construction mission to the International Space Station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Atlantis' six astronauts began inspecting the space shuttle's thermal skin for damage early Sunday as they soared toward the international space station.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--The landing of space shuttle Atlantis and a six-member crew led by Brent Jett Jr.
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Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - breaking the nearly 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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By Rona Marech, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 7--ROCKVILLE -- Pictures taken before Navy Capt. Lisa M. Nowak's space shuttle mission show her smiling and confident in an orange jumpsuit, with wavy tresses framing her face and an American flag and a model rocket ship behind her.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The six crew members of space shuttle Atlantis strapped into the spacecraft and ran through a practice countdown Friday in preparation for the program's first launch of the year next month. "It went seamlessly," NASA spokesman Bill Johnson said.