The Spirit of St. Louis in outer space
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What The Associated Press described as test pilot Michael Melvill&#39;s &quot;corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride&quot; on the first leg of SpaceShipOne&#39;s successful attempt to win the $10 million X-Prize, was actually a remarkable rendition of what generations of
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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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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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Space experts from around the world assembled in this southern Indian city on Tuesday to look back 50 years to the launch of the first artificial satellite and pay tribute to the pioneers of the space age.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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By AP  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  --  On Thursday night, Nature and NASA will collaborate in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle.
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By Gibson, Dirk C  This paper describes and documents the surprising importance of public relations to outer space tourism. It is no overstatement to suggest that the future of outer space tourism depends as much on public relations as on any other single factor.
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STUNNING images have captured what astronomers call &quot;the graceful interactions of a galactic ballet, played out on a stage some 300 million light years away&quot;.
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By ROY A. BAHLS  BY ROY A. BAHLS  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  Weather permitting, local sky watchers are in for some prime viewing of the international s pace s tation and space shuttle Discovery as they streak overhead.
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St. Louis, Mo. - A rocket off The Rocket launched the St. Louis Cardinals into the World Series. Scott Rolen&#39;s seat-bound, sixth-inning line drive off Hall of Fame-bound pitcher Roger Clemens on Thursday pushed St.
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By Ana Maria Trujillo, The Santa Fe New Mexican  Jun. 13--On Monday, a group of space travelers found themselves stranded on an unknown planet called Zak. Their spaceship crashed and its bits and pieces were scattered all over the planet's surface under its Christmaslight stars.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  Nature and NASA will collaborate tonight in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle.
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In a scene from the film &quot;The Right Stuff, sunlight streams through the window of astronaut Leroy Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper&#39;s Faith 7 spacecraft as it reaches orbit.
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NASA builds its spacecraft in some of the tidiest rooms on Earth, but a few microbial stowaways always manage to survive and sneak a ride into space.
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MOJAVE, California -- Nobody can claim that Burt Rutan, the innovative aerospace designer, doesn&#39;t have his head in the cloudsâ¦and his eyes focused on the stars.
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The force is with NASA Star Wars is 30 years old, and Hollywood props cupboards are full of useless (but very cool) old tat. What better way to highlight both these facts than to announce that the original "light sabre" from the Star Wars movies, as wielded by Mark Hamill, is to be sent to space on board the next space shuttle mission.â¦
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It sounds like something out of Star Trek. Austrian researchers have teleported photons (particles of light) across the Danube River in Vienna using technology that calls to mind Scotty beaming up Captain Kirk ...