Space station astronaut is movie buff
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The space-to-ground radio crackled recently with a message from Mission Control to U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and his two crewmates at the international space station.
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ONE of Americaâs greatest unsung heroes, an astronaut who touched the stars yet barely scraped the surface of public recognition, is to retire.
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By Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 18--In "The Astronaut Farmer," Billy Bob Thornton plays a private citizen, rancher, husband and father who invites a former NASA astronaut out to his place to take a look at what he's been working on.
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There's nothing routine about working in space, as astronaut Mike Fincke found out recently when he did some soldering onboard the International Space Station.    Science@NASA -- Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at the Marshall Space Flight Center, watched his video monitor in disbelief...
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By Chicago Tribune  Feb. 8--Being an astronaut, even if it doesn't quite carry the romantic cachet of "The Right Stuff" era of the 1960s, is still one of those jobs that ignites the imagination.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  --  Last summer, astronaut Lisa Nowak was soaring 220 miles above Earth, floating in the rarefied air of the international space station.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper poked her head out of an airlock Tuesday to begin installing a new addition to the international space station, she joined an elite club of women who have gone on spacewalks.
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NASA scientists are studying the man who was the basis for Dustin Hoffman&#39;s character in the 1988 film &quot;Rain Man,&quot; hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
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The man behind Space Ship 1 brought his love of adventure to the University of Texas on Friday. Burt Rutan spoke to students about space tourism.
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In a meeting of the cinematic with the scientific, Hollywood helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a returning NASA space probe out of the air before it hits the ground.
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Malaysia's first astronaut  said on Tuesday his view of Earth from the International Space  Station had been "a magical and spiritual experience."
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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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IT PROMISES to be a scene worthy of a science fiction spectacular. A space probe carrying primordial material scooped from outer space starts to plunge towards our planet. But before it can strike, a helicopter flown by a Hollywood stunt ...
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By AP Wire Service  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- NASA asked an astronaut aboard the international space station to exercise vigorously Friday, hoping the rapid movement would jostle a half-retracted solar wing that refuses to fold up properly.
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Astronaut hopefuls with the right stuff have a fresh chance to reach for the International Space Station and, ultimately, the moon, thanks to a new NASA hunt for qualified spaceflyers.
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Last July, Lisa Nowak was on top of the world. Clad in the bright orange uniform of a United States astronaut, she smiled and posed for the cameras before setting off on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station high above planet Earth. But how the mighty can fall.
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SPACE.com / CAPE  CANAVERAL, Fla. - When the space shuttle Atlantis landed on Thursday, you can bet former astronaut Tom Jones was watching.