Helicopter Stunt Pilots to Snag Stardust for NASA
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PASADENA, Calif.  - NASA has recruited two  Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots for an especially tricky  maneuver -- snagging a capsule full of stardust as it  parachutes back to Earth next month, mission managers said on  Thursday.
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California - The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return to the sky next week in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize.
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Rocket fat cat's plan unaffected by Mojave explosion Virgin Galactic, the firm offering suborbital rocketplane thrill rides for the very wealthy, has signed up a partner company to conduct preflight training for its customers.â¦
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In a harrowing feat high over the Utah desert, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds &quot;a piece of the sun&quot; and bring it safely down.
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A sophisticated autopilot system that could play a vital role in missions to the moon or Mars will be tested this week during a $100 million demonstration 500 miles above Earth.
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An ambitious plan to pluck a falling space capsule from the sky with helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots went awry when the capsule&#39;s parachutes failed to open and it slammed into the desert.
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By Christina Cooke, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 8--Four Battle Academy teachers will freefall in NASA's  reduced-gravity plane today and Friday to test scientific experiments designed  by their students.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK     MOJAVE, Calif.  -- Hoping to build on the momentum sparked by a private rocket plane's dash into space, supporters of opening the heavens to civilians are turning the winner-take-all race into an annual competition that might further fuel imaginations...
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NASA has enlisted the aid of Hollywood stunt pilots to retrieve a space capsule as it falls to Earth. The Genesis probe has collected tiny particles of the sun -- a stream of charged atoms known as &quot;solar wind&quot; -- from a region located about ...
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Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Boeing Co. may work as a team in a competition to develop NASAâs project to send astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond, Northrop Grumman officials said this week.
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NASA has chosen two aerospace companies to develop a commercial spaceship capable of flying cargo to the International Space Station.
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A team of aviation pioneers with dreams of one day offering tourist trips into space will tomorrow attempt to clinch a Â£5.5 million prize by launching a craft beyond the
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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The history-making spacecraft designed by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan will blast off Monday morning from a small airport in Mojave, California, in a bid for $10 million.
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LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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A team of NASA (news - web sites) scientists, navigators and helicopter stunt pilots is ready to snatch a space sample canister out of the sky next month when the Genesis spacecraft returns to Earth.
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na meeting of the cinematic with the scientific, Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a returning NASA space probe out of the air this morning before it hits the ground.