20 years later, female astronaut recalls a spacewalk &#39;first&#39;
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As Kathy Sullivan nears her 20th anniversary as the first American woman to walk in space, her adventurous spirit is still alive. The former astronaut says she supports a manned
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She rides into history aboard the shuttle Challenger, opening up new vistas to a young generation.
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Not so long ago, nobody would speak for Lisa Nowak. Accusations that the former astronaut had made a diaper-assisted, 1,000-mile drive to confront a woman vying for the affections of the same space shuttle pilot turned into water-cooler and late-night TV punchlines. She had devolved from a decorated Navy captain into a sad, frantic mess at the end of a jailhouse camera lens.
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An Iranian-American woman becomes the first paying female space tourist, following the successful liftoff of a Russian rocket bound for the international space station. She'll return to Earth at the end of the month.
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CAPE CANAVERAL -- It's a whole different kind of launch countdown: More than eight years and . . . still counting for many NASA astronauts who have done everything except, you know, fly in space. For example, consider Lee Archambault, a 20-year Air Force test pilot and longtime astronaut.
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The world's first female space tourist has launched her multi-million dollar adventure, blasting off with two professional astronauts from the Baikonur cosmodrome bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
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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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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft   was set to blast off on Monday carrying a woman who will   accomplish a trio of space firsts: the first female tourist,   first female Muslim, and first Iranian in orbit.
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The first woman space tourist, US citizen Anousheh Ansari, blasts off on a Russian Soyuz rocket.
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As a kid growing up in Schaumburg, Cathy Koerner liked her space. Outer space. She played with the space control center activity set she got for Christmas when she was 4 years old. She joined in her father's love of science fiction books and TV shows.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A spacewalking NASA  astronaut pitched two large pieces of obsolete equipment off  the International Space Station and into orbit on Monday.
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Traveling in space has been a desire for many since ages. Nevertheless, it only seems to be coming true in this millennium. Even though we are still years away from mass scale space tourism, the enthusiasm
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The world's first female astronaut  Valentina Tereshkova, marking her 70th birthday on Tuesday,  says she still dreams of flying to Mars -- even on a one-way  ticket.
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Peggy Whitson lived on the International Space Station for six months in 2002. She is now preparing for her second tour in space.
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By Andrew Buncombe  From the steppes of Kazakhstan, a wealthy Iranian-American woman was blasted off into space yesterday. In doing so, Anousheh Ansari set at least two records - becoming the first female Muslim and the first Iranian in orbit.
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A hug today commemorated the first meeting of a female commander of the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
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The first female space tourist is   enjoying her stay on the International Space Station (ISS) and   is passing her time by taking photos of the view, a German   astronaut told a news conference in a live link-up on Friday.