New Tourist Spacecraft Unveiled
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The creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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Like millions of children, Anousheh Ansari dreamed and wondered about 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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The latest tiny flying robot that could help in search and rescue or surveillance has been unveiled in Japan.
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Sir Richard Branson is set to unveil a mock-up of the Virgin vehicle that will carry customers into space.
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European aerospace company EADS on Wednesday unveiled a model of a jet designed to take tourists into space, rocketing paying passengers to weightlessness at more than 62 miles above the Earth.
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A select group of rich tourists may be blasting into space within a few years in a craft that looks like a cross between a corporate jet and a toy bomber.
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Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson unveiled part of his Virgin Galactic spacecraft, expressing hope that millions will be able to travel into space in coming decades and vowing to do his part to make that a reality.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Nearly 40 astronauts on Friday became the first to ride aboard a NASA tourist attraction that recreates a ride aboard the space shuttle.
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A spacecraft in solar orbit reached almost directly above   the south pole of the Sun last week, giving   scientists a rare glimpse of this unfamiliar territory.
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The Mercury Messenger probe is set to become the first spacecraft since 1975 to visit the innermost planet.
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By TRAVIS REED CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Nearly 40 astronauts on Friday became the first to ride aboard a NASA tourist attraction that recreates a ride aboard the space shuttle, complete with the deep rumble of liftoff and a serene view of the earth from orbit.
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Europe's "super rocket" which can lift more than one and heavier satellites into orbit is ready for its first trip into space.
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes will peer into space for the first time on Friday.
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Russian space officials on Tuesday unveiled a full-scale high-fidelity mockup of the spacecraft they hope will replace the veteran Soyuz space capsule.
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NEAR ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - The world's first   female space tourist, Iranian-born Anousheh Ansari, returned to   Earth on Friday, bumping down in a Russian Soyuz capsule at   dawn on the Kazakh steppe.
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Monday's flyby, the first visit in 33 years, is expected to render new images and data that can shed light on the origins of the solar system.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.