Astronaut takes a tumble in space
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The world&#39;s first private astronaut, South African-born Mike Melvill, was jubilant as he returned safely from a harrowing roller-coaster ride into space that stopped the hearts of onlookers.
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NEW YORK _ Lisa Marie Nowak reached for the stars and made it there as one of history's 46 female astronauts _ which makes her fall to Earth so much more shocking.
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A private manned rocket soared into space for a second time yesterday, landing successfully after an unexpectedly bumpy ride that nearly meant an early end to the team&#39;s bid to win a $10 million prize.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah - Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats.    NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination...
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Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper  collapsed twice during a welcome-home ceremony on Friday, a day  after returning to Earth from a 12-day mission on space shuttle  Atlantis.
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Test pilot makes successful foray into space on rocket ship. But there was some drama... THE spectators on the ground gasped as the rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in about 16 seconds.
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When floating through space, and orbiting the Earth, an astronaut witnesses a sunset and sunrise every 45 minutes. Exploring beyond the atmosphere furthers
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 10--The meltdown of astronaut Lisa Nowak is strange and sad. Even though we no longer throw ticker tape parades for NASA astronauts returning from outer space, they still hold a special place in our collective national image.
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The first Malaysian astronaut in space returns safely to Earth from the International Space Station.
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French doctors carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
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What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?
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An unidentified object orbiting below and at the same speed as Atlantis may have been shaken loose from the space shuttle, leading NASA officials to scramble to find out whether the vehicle remains safe to make the descent back to Earth.
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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 spacecraft loaded with rubbish from the International Space Station (ISS) plunged into the Pacific Ocean in a controlled fall, ground control officials were quoted as saying.
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By Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 17--Alaska's first astronaut has been in space about a week, and so far Bill Oefelein's trip from Last Frontier to Final Frontier has been a smooth ride.
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With a big lean back and a giant push forward, American astronaut Clayton Anderson heaved a 1,400-pound (635-kilogram) tank of ammonia from of the International Space Station today (ISS).
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah, Sept. 8 &#0151; A NASA capsule bearing precious atomic specimens that Hollywood stunt pilots were prepared to catch as it came into earth's atmosphere crashed into the desert this morning after a parachute that was to slow its fall failed to deploy.