Space Crew Takes First Spin in a Soyuz
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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 Soyuz space capsule containing a US-Russian crew has successfully landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and American astronaut Mike Fincke had left the international space
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Leroy Chiao has ever flown in a Soyuz spacecraft, before, but the three lifted off early Thursday from Kazakhstan en route to the International Space Station.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-US crew returned safely to Earth from the international space station, their Soyuz space capsule streaking through the atmosphere and landing on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan early Sunday.
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A Soyuz capsule made a soft landing in the pitch-dark in Kazakhstan's steppes on Sunday, and its U.S.-Russian crew said they were happy to breathe in the smell of Earth after a long stint in orbit.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A Russian rocket carrying two cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the international space station lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Thursday.    For Russians Salizhan Sharipov and Yuri Shargin and American Leroy Chiao, it was the first mission in a 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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Two astronauts conduct the first spacewalk of the latest shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a US-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the international space station hurtled through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere and landed in Kazakhstan Saturday evening.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- The Soyuz spacecraft closed in on the international space station at dangerously high speed yesterday, forcing the US-Russian crew to put on the brakes, abandon autopilot, and manually dock the Soviet-era capsule in an unplanned and tricky maneuver.
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The first test launch of a new rocket carrier, the Soyuz-2 (Rus), was carried out successfully today from the Plesetsk cosmodrome [in Arkhangelsk Region] at 2130 [Moscow time, 1830 gmt].
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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are preparing for the mission's first spacewalk.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan  - A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the international space station hurtled through the Earth's atmosphere and landed in Kazakhstan on Saturday evening.
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A Russian Soyuz capsule with space   tourist Anousheh Ansari on board undocked from the   International Space Station on Thursday and began its return to   Earth.
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com. 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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Russian and US spacemen have landed safely back on Earth after completing their mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Russians Yuri Shargin and Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke touched
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Russian and US crew members begin their return to Earth, leaving two men on the International Space station.
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French doctors have carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.