Area engineer was in at the start of the space race
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Maxime &quot;Max&quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA&#39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Space station flight controllers on Tuesday began the delicate task of unfurling the outpost's new solar power wings, which two spacewalking astronauts installed during the first major task of shuttle Atlantis' 13-day flight.
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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.â¦
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Astronauts of the US shuttle Atlantis started the first space walk of their mission Monday to begin installing power-generating equipment on the International Space Station hundreds of miles above the Earth.
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By JIM SKEEN\\ Staff Writer  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE - One of the first space shuttle missions Joe D'Agostino ever worked didn't involve a journey into space -- just a long, slow roll down 10th Street East.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press writer  HOUSTON  It's a junkyard out there in space and sometimes astronauts accidentally contribute to the litter.   In 1965, the first American spacewalker, Ed White, lost a spare glove when he went outside for the first time.
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The creator of the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space showed models of a new, bigger version.
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MOJAVE -- Burt Rutan&#39;s space ship one made its first trip into sub-orbital outer space in pursuit of the $10 million Ansari X Prize.
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The SpaceShipOne team will attempt to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize on Monday, the 47th anniversary of the start of the first space race when the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellite.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Oct. 18, 2004 - The space station&#39;s newest astronaut will cast his ballot in the presidential election from 225 miles up, with NASA&#39;s help.
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The shuttle Discoveryâs mission involves challenging construction work aboard the International Space Station.
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HOUSTON - It's a junkyard out there in space and sometimes astronauts accidentally contribute to the litter.In 1965, the first American spacewalker, Ed White, lost a spare glove when he went outside for the first time.
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The year was 1966 and NASA was testing its first fully-assembled, 36-story tall Saturn V moon rocket at its launch facilities in Florida. Despite the threat posed by a hurricane and a ruptured fuel line, the trials with the sky-scraping booster had gone well and it came time to separate the Saturn into its five stages in the voluminous Vertical Assembly Building that had been erected for that very purpose.
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By Associated Press  HOUSTON - It's a junkyard out there in space and sometimes astronauts accidentally contribute to the litter.  In 1965, the first American spacewalker, Ed White, lost a glove when he went outside for the first time.
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The creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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A Canadian was forced to delay its first launch in the X Prize competition, an international race to put civilians into space. First prize is US$10 million.
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The competition between the country&#39;s two satellite radio companies began as a race to the stars, with each fighting to be the first to launch satellites into space.