South Korean Astronaut Candidates to Begin Training in March
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Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap  SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) - South Korea's two astronaut candidates are expected to begin intensive training in March for their historic trip into space, the government said Tuesday.
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NASA is hoping techniques that would enable a crew to repair damages to a space shuttle in flight will be ready for the shuttle's planned May 2005 return to space, officials with the agency said on Monday.
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BANGALORE  - India&#39;s space agency is ready to send a man to space within seven years if the government gives the nod, while preparations have already begun for the launch of an unmanned lunar mission, a top official said.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are preparing for a potential spacewalk this month to replace a broken motor at the base of one of their orbital lab's expansive solar wings.
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MOSCOW -- Russia&#39;s Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country&#39;s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration.
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Astronaut hopefuls with the right stuff have a fresh chance to reach for the International Space Station and, ultimately, the moon, thanks to a new NASA hunt for qualified spaceflyers.
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MOSCOW. Dec 7 (Interfax-AVN) - The first South Korean astronaut will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2008.
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South Korea will pick its first two astronauts next year for a space trip by 2007, the science ministry said Sunday, after Russia agreed to help the country&#39;s space program.
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By ERIC TALMADGE TOKYO - All systems are finally go for Japan's first lunar orbiter, which is scheduled for launch on Aug. 16, officials announced Wednesday.
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Malaysia&#39;s soon-to-be first astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor said on Thursday he hoped to fast aboard the International Space Station as he visits there in the holy month of Ramadan.
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By Mark Patrick Grandstaff, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Jun. 18--About 70 South Middle School students suited up for a day at a  space mission simulator recently at Wheeling Jesuit University.
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South Korea announced Wednesday that a 30-year-old expert in artificial intelligence will be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year.
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By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 7--Astronauts are people, too.   The pilots, doctors, engineers and scientists who become astronauts go through stringent psychological evaluation in addition to rigorous training in the years before their space missions.
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By Houston Chronicle  Feb. 15---- NASA shuttle astronauts traditionally take questions from the news media before their mission countdown begins during a training session at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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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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By The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 22--One San Luiz, Ariz., teacher is going to space this summer -- space academy, that is.   Jesus Arrizon, a Southwest Junior High School math teacher, is attending the U.S.
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A new crew will be sent to the International Space Station next month, even though there are concerns about adequate oxygen and other supplies.