Pilots to pluck space capsule from air
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The Genesis space capsule carrying solar wind particles will be plucked from nearly a mile above the Utah desert by stunt helicopter pilots whoâve replicated the retrieval, without fumbles, in nearly a dozen practice runs.
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The crew of the International Space Station flew an emergency lifeboat from one docking port to another at the outpost Monday, clearing the way for two spacewalks planned for next year.
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HOUSTON -- The NASA turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight Friday.
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com. NASA&#39;s newest astronaut candidates experienced their first taste of zero gravity and are now preparing to make their first jet flights without the company of instructors.
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A U.S.-Russian crew prepared Saturday to bid goodbye to the International Space Station and hurtle back to Earth inside a Russian Soyuz space capsule, ending a six-month mission in space.
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In a meeting of the cinematic with the scientific, Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a returning NASA space probe out of the air before it hits the ground.
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Scientists are selecting subjects to be locked in a self-sufficient capsule to test plans for a trip to Mars.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are setting the stage for the spacewalk finale of their six-month mission Thursday to free a jammed antenna on a Russian cargo ship.
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Scientists are optimistic that they will retrieve useful information from the smashed capsule that fell to earth in the Utah desert after three years in space, officials said Thursday.
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NASA's  newest&nbsp;astronaut candidates&nbsp;experienced their first taste of zero gravity and are now preparing&nbsp;to make their first jet flights without the company of instructors.
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SpaceShipOne will lift off from its Mojave Desert airstrip in California about 7 am local time for flight to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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Scientists are hopeful they can retrieve particles of solar wind from a capsule that crashed last 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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Cold and cloudy weather has threatened to scuttle a planned blastoff for the space shuttle Discovery, two days after it was called off at the last minute due to low-flying clouds.
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NASA ground controllers tried to free a  jammed solar panel on the International Space Station on  Friday, while astronauts prepared for a final spacewalk to  rewire the outpost's power grid.
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A pioneering aviation company will attempt to rocket into space on Wednesday in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The prize will go to the first non-governmental vehicle that can ferry three people
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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.