Wichita students chat with astronauts
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station shared pictures, showed off their candy stash and flubbed a simple math equation as they talked to Wichita fifth-graders via a downlink.
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REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Their first attempt to send science projects into space was destroyed in the Columbia shuttle wreck. Now, some high school students from across the country get to try again.
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A former dormitory converted to classrooms at the Pensacola Naval Air Station was dedicated Friday to two Columbia astronauts who were among the seven who died in the shuttle disaster Feb. 1, 2003.
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Space shuttle Discovery's seven astronauts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Sunday for a final stretch of training and preparations before they are launched on a 12-day mission to rewire the international space station.
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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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Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background &#151; high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot &#151; seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - In the neighborhood of astronaut Lisa Nowak, parents are now able to play catch with their kids on balmy evenings. Instead of the hum of satellite trucks, they can hear birds chirping at sunset.
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By Steve Scott, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 14--While one Minnesotan walks in space, another is anchored at Houston Mission Control as the lead flight director of the Atlantis shuttle mission.
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By Al Neuharth  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- This gateway to the universe has had 322 astronauts pass through in training or en route to space flights since the original seven in the "Mercury" program in 1959.    Accidents in space or on launch pads have taken the lives of 17.
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Students from an upper secondary school in Pori on Finland's west coast made contact with the crew of the International Space Station yesterday morning.
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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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By RASHA MADKOUR and DAVID CRARY HOUSTON - Lisa 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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Newly released NASA e-mails hint at something more than a professional relationship between former astronaut Lisa Nowak and a space shuttle pilot.
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American astronaut Michael Fincke speaks at a news conference in Star City near Moscow, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004. The newly-returned crew of the International Space Station said Monday that they accomplished
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To: EDUCATION EDITORS  Contact: Dewayne Washington of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-0040   GREENBELT, Md., June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Erik Semrud, a student from St.
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By BILL KACZOR    PENSACOLA, Fla.  -- A former dormitory converted to classrooms at the Pensacola Naval Air Station was dedicated Friday to two Columbia astronauts who were among the seven who died in the shuttle disaster Feb...
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Nearly 300 students were spellbound at an Ohio theater when astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, described his 1962 space flight.  Glenn, 85, was the first American to orbit Earth on Feb. 20, 1962.