Astronaut to Meet Baby Daughter on Return to Earth
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Days away from ending a six-month mission in space, US astronaut Michael Fincke said on Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting his 4-month-old daughter.
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The mother of a U.S. astronaut who has been in space since October was killed when a freight train hit her car at a railroad crossing near Chicago, police said on Thursday.
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A MOTHER in Palatine, Illinois has been receiving video from the space shuttle Atlantis on her baby monitor.
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An astronautâs life can stretch family ties to the breaking point, and astronauts are not immune to emotional stress.
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MOSCOW - Echoing what NASA (news - web sites) officials said a day earlier, a Russian space official on Friday said the two-man crew on the international space station could be forced to return to Earth if a planned resupply flight cannot reach them with
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Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background &#151; high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot &#151; seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense.
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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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By Angie Herrington, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 21--Chattanoogan June Scobee Rodgers says she can relate to how the  families of the six astronauts on the Atlantis space shuttle must have felt  this morning before the spacecraft's expected return.
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By Mike Schneider  HOUSTON - Atlantis was cleared Saturday to return to Earth this coming week after the space shuttle's heat shield was judged capable of surviving the intense heat of re-entry, and a U.S. astronaut reached a milestone with the longest single spaceflight by any woman.
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A giant leap is about to be made for womankind. When space shuttle Discovery blasts off Tuesday, a woman will be sitting in the commander's seat. And up at the international space station, a female skipper will be waiting to greet her.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - A married U.S. astronaut was accused on Tuesday of trying to kidnap and kill a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut after a bizarre 950-mile drive wearing diapers to confront the woman.
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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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By JON W. GLASS  By Jon W. Glass  The Virginian-Pilot  HAMPTON  Some engineers at NASA Langley Research Center will be watching the space shuttle Atlantis' return to Earth with special interest.
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Atlantis returns to Earth after spacewalks and concerns of debris hitting the spacecraft
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  The mother of Needham-raised astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams said yesterday she is confident her daughter will return safely to Earth despite headaches with the Russian computers on the International Space Station, where her daughter has lived for six months.
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NASA looked to Mother Nature for guidance on Friday as it sought for a second day to bring space shuttle Atlantis and seven astronauts home from a two-week-long mission.
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Eagle residents Stan and June Swanson are at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, eagerly anticipating their son's return to Earth. Steve Swanson, the youngest of the couple's four children, has been in space for 13 days as part of the seven-member crew of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis.