First Malaysian astronaut to begin training in Russia
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Malaysia's first astronaut will begin training in a few days in Moscow's Star City before he blasts off in a year's time on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, the Russian space agency Roskosmos said has said.
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Among the things Malaysia's first astronaut will be worrying about next month: How does an observant Muslim pray toward Mecca while soaring hundreds of miles above the Earth?
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HI MUM - I'm in space!  Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov looks as if he's on his holidays and waving for the camera as he goes on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
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Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap  SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) - South Korea's two astronaut candidates are expected to begin intensive training in March for their historic trip into space, the government said Tuesday.
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Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - breaking the nearly 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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MOSCOW -- Russia&#39;s Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country&#39;s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration.
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Text of report in English by South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo website on 20 February  The two candidates vying to become the country's first astronaut will head for Russia on Feb. 27 for a year of training.
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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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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- This week&#39;s trip to the international space station will be the cosmonauts&#39; first flight in a Soyuz spacecraft -- a rupture with the 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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A Russian cosmonaut will travel to the International Space Station with the outpost&#39;s next two-man crew when it launches aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft next month, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.
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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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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV  KOROLYOV, Russia - The space capsule carrying a new U.S.-Russian crew and the first paying female space tourist docked smoothly Wednesday at the international space station.
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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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A Russian Soyuz rocket is due to blast off from the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan early Thursday. Astronaut Leroy Chiao and cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipovalso will observe conditions on
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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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Two Russian cosmonauts and the first Malaysian in space returned to Earth on Sunday in an unusually abrupt and off-target manner after leaving the orbiting the International Space Station, Russian mission control said.
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Malaysia&#39;s first astronaut, involved in a 25 million dollar space programme, will carry out scientific research including a study on the growth of cancer cells in outer space, reports said Wednesday.