Capsule, space tourist return to Earth
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The capsule carrying the world's first female space tourist touched down Friday on the Kazakh steppe after a bone-jarring journey from the international space station.
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A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off Monday on a flight to the international space station.
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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The first private manned rocket glided into space a second time and returned to Earth after recovering from a wild roll on its ascent on Wednesday in a bid to earn the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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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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SPACE.com / A Russian spacecraft carrying two astronauts and the world's  first female space tourist rocked safely back to Earth while dangling from parachutes today a few hours after casting off from the International Space Station (ISS).
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PASADENA (California) - Hollywood stunt pilots and Nasa scientists are teaming up to snatch a capsule full of stardust as it parachutes back to Earth next month.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a US astronaut and two cosmonauts is set to return to Earth on Sunday, landing in darkness by parachute in the barren steppe of northern Kazakhstan.
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The Discovery space shuttle undocked from the International Space Station to begin its journey back to Earth after an eight day construction visit.
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The first Malaysian astronaut in space returns safely to Earth from the International Space Station.
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An Iranian-American woman becomes the first paying female space tourist, following the successful liftoff of a Russian rocket bound for the international space station. She'll return to Earth at the end of the month.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a US-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the International Space Station hurtled through the Earth's atmosphere and landed in Kazakhstan yesterday evening. The Soyuz TMA-4 carrying Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and American partner Mike Fincke touched down beneath a parachute at the targeted landing site, some 55 miles north ...
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American astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian commander Gennady Padalka descended to Earth in remote Kazakstan late Saturday aboard a Soyuz space capsule.
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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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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz capsule  carrying a U.S. astronaut and two cosmonauts is set to return  to Earth on Sunday, landing in darkness by parachute in the  barren steppe of northern Kazakhstan.
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Two astronauts who spent half a year aboard the International Space Station returned safely on Saturday to the steppes of Kazakhstan in the pre-dawn darkness.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-US crew returned safely to Earth from the international space station, their Soyuz space capsule streaking through the atmosphere and landing on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan early Sunday.