Fore! Cosmonaut knocks golf ball off space station
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A Russian cosmonaut-turned-golfer took his game out of this world, knocking a ball from the International Space Station in a publicity stunt for a Canadian golf club manufacturer.
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MOJAVE, CALIF. - A privately built and operated spacecraft roared out of the atmosphere on Wednesday with a historic flight that brings the team one step closer to winning a $10-million US prize.
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The blast-off in a Soyuz spacecraft from Russia&#39;s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will deploy a replacement crew for Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, who have manned the orbital platform since April.
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A replacement crew for the International Space Station blasted off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia early today.
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In space, nobody can hear you scream "Fore!" Then again, "fore" isn't something Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin is likely to shout out Wednesday when he strikes a lightweight golf ball with a special 6-iron from outside the international space station in a promotional stunt for a Canadian golf club manufacturer.
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NASA&#39;s $264 million Genesis mission came to a sudden and violent end on Wednesday morning, when a capsule returning with samples of the Sun slammed into
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian rocket carrying a new Russian-U.S. crew to the international space station lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome Thursday.
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American NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, bottom, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, center, and Russian Yuri Shargin, top, wave just before their launch at the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakstan, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004.
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America&#39;s Leroy Chiao and two cosmonauts embarked on &quot;an entirely new adventure&quot; late Wednesday night, blasting off from the Kazakhstan desert aboard a Russian Soyuz spaceship bound for the International Space Station.
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A US-Russian crew had to turn off autopilot yesterday and manually moor its Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station after an unidentified glitch resulted
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Game designer John Carmack's fourth and final shot at winning the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge ends in flames. After a loud explosion, his Armadillo lander is surrounded by a pool of fire, which spreads approximately 30 feet away from the rocket.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Russian rocket carrying a new Russian-U.S. crew to the international space station lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Thursday...
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US astronaut Mike Fincke descended safely to Earth with two cosmonauts aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule late Saturday, Houston time, to end a six-month stay aboard the international space station.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a little better   protected against impact by stray particles today after two Russian cosmonauts installed debris shielding to the station during a 5 hour, 25 minute spacewalk.
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By David McHugh< Associated Press  DARMSTADT, Germany - Europe's first spacecraft to the moon smashed into a volcanic plain as planned Sunday, signaling in a bright flash the end of a successful mission to test a new propulsion system and navigation technology for flights to other planets.
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One of the most powerful rockets since The Boeing Co.&#39;s Saturn 5 hurled astronauts to the moon more than three decades ago is set to blast away from Cape Canaveral today, weather permitting.