First Edinburgh man in space
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THE year is 2007. A five-seater spacecraft powers away from an aeroplane &quot;mother ship&quot; ten miles above the Mojave Desert in the United States and shoots into the stratosphere.
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PARIS The first European spacecraft sent to the Moon has entered orbit there, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday. The SMART-1 spacecraft reached its closest point to the Moon so far, coming within 5,000
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The first European spacecraft sent to the moon has entered lunar orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on November 16, 2004.
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Guillermo Soehnlein grew up stargazing and dreaming of space travel. He's the founder of  the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs, which launched its first chapter in Washington in April 2003. -Ellen McCarthy
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Malaysia's first astronaut  said on Tuesday his view of Earth from the International Space  Station had been "a magical and spiritual experience."
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Richard Branson, Britain's best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world's first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for &#36;198,600.
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A rock quarried in Scotland is blasted into space to probe suggestions meteorites could carry life.
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French astronaut Leopold Eyharts has been named for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) to set up Europe's Columbus science module, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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French doctors carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
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PARIS, France -- Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon has successfully entered lunar orbit, a key milestone in its 13-month trip into space.
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FORMER MICROSOFT man Paul Allen has been the first man to privately finance a spaceship that has got a civilian into space twice. SpaceShipOne put former US Navy test pilot Brian Binnie into space within two
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CHANTILLY, VirginiaâSpace shuttle Enterprise was born to be an astronautical bridesmaid, never a bride. Built in 1976 as one of the first trio of US shuttles, Enterprise never
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Ask the average person what the connection is between Bill Pullman and space exploration and you&#39;re likely to hear references to the sci-fi movies he has starred in, such as &quot;Spaceballs&quot; or &quot;Independence Day.&quot; But the actor and director has much more invested now in the recent history of space flight as his own creation, the theatrical production &quot;Expedition 6,&quot; has opened for a month engagement at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, Calif.
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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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French doctors have carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s &quot;Invention of the Year.&quot;.
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Michael Melvill, who earned commercial astronaut's wings by piloting SpaceShipOne's history-making flight earlier this year, was selected to fly the first X Prize flight Wednesday.