Only in Oklahoma: Pilot, Astronaut Hopeful Tried on Different Wings
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By GENE CURTIS World Staff Writer  Jerrie Cobb had the right stuff but was the wrong sex.  She passed the same physical and psychological tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts -- America's original spacemen selected in 1959 -- and was expected to become the first woman to fly into space.
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_ One of NASA&#39;s first astronauts, Oklahoma native L. Gordon Cooper Jr., was remembered at the Johnson Space Center as ``not too bad of a water skier, not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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Astronauts set to take off from Florida on the shuttle Atlantis are determined to remember the mission, because it could be the last of their careers.  Lee Archambault, a 20-year Air Force test pilot and longtime astronaut, has yet to fly into space, The Miami Herald reported.
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Bones McCoy jobless before even born NASA is to carry out a contest between human and robotic surgeons in conditions of zero gravity this week. Competing fleshy and machine medics are even now carrying out a variety of procedures aboard C-9 military cargo aircraft soaring in parabolic arcs high above the Gulf of Mexico.â¦
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A stubby rocket plane touched down safely in the Mojave desert yesterday to claim a dual prize: the first private, crewed spacecraft to fly two successful missions within
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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As a retired pilot himself, Roy W. Roush knows a good aviator holds the elevation steady while gliding through the clouds. In the 15 years he was friends with space pioneer Leroy Gordon Cooper, Roush flew
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PASADENA, Calif.  - NASA has recruited two Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots for an especially tricky maneuver -- snagging a capsule full of stardust as it parachutes back to Earth next month, mission managers said on Thursday.
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Astronauts are meant to fly. That's why the arrest of astronaut Lisa Nowak by Orlando police for her attack on Colleen Shipman over a mutual love interest is especially sad.
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By Ann Potempa, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--Alaska astronaut Bill Oefelein will have a unique conversation with home Wednesday: Students in Kenai will ask the space shuttle pilot questions, and he'll answer them -- live from space.
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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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By Rasha Madkour and David Crary HOUSTON -- Lisa M. Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty -- to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background -- high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot -- seemed to equip her for the challenge.
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RENO, Nevada  - Amid a massive search effort to find missing aviator-adventurer Steve Fossett, three pilots have died in as many days at an unrelated aviation race competition about 80 miles north of the search area.
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Two British-based pilots set off into a blue Texas sky on Tuesday on their second attempt to fly around the world via the North and South poles in a helicopter, one of the last great unaccomplished feats of aviation.
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Burt Rutan, a maverick aviator with Elvis-like sideburns, spread his futuristic vision last week of space travel no longer dominated by the government but by daring engineers such as himself.
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After years of capturing the imagination of wide-eyed daredevils, dreamers and would-be entrepreneurs, space travel for ordinary people may finally be taking flight.
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By Traci Watson  All through a 10-year wait to go to space, astronaut Lisa Nowak kept her cool. She reached orbit on the space shuttle in July -- and upon returning, her life went dreadfully wrong.