First Malaysian astronaut returns to hero's welcome
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Malaysia's first astronaut landed safely  back in Kazakhstan to a hero's welcome on Sunday with two  Russian cosmonauts after spending 11 days in space, officials  at Moscow's mission control said.
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A U.S. astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and murder a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut returned to Houston on Wednesday after she was freed on bail in Florida.
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A new crew arrived safely at the International Space Station on Saturday morning, despite a glitch that required the cosmonaut pilot to manually fly their Soyuz spaceship the last few hundred feet to its parking spot.
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Joseph Estrada, jailed former leader of the Philippines, came home to a hero's welcome on Friday as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced criticism for pardoning the playboy movie star.
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NASA declared that it's back in the space-station assembly business Thursday after shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts safely returned from a 12-day mission to install a big new piece of the orbiting outpost.
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Emsworth&#39;s Mike Fincke returns to Earth on Saturday, six months after leaving for the space voyage he had dreamed of since he was a young boy.
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The space shuttle Atlantis took off on a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station for the first time since the Columbia disaster.
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HOUSTON, June 10 -- The crews of Atlantis and the international space station greeted each other with hugs and handshakes Sunday after the space shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost.
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The first female space tourist lands in northern Kazakhstan after a three-hour journey home.
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A U.S. astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and murder a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut arrived back in Houston on Wednesday after she was freed on bail in Florida.
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A Soyuz craft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's first space traveler left its docking port at the international space station on Sunday, starting a return trip to Earth, footage from Russian mission control showed.
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STAR CITY, Russia  - Malaysia's first astronaut said on Thursday his main priority aboard the International Space Station would be cancer research, but he would try to observe as much of Ramadan in orbit as possible.
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Mike Fincke, whose daughter became the first child born to an astronaut in orbit June 18, is preparing to return to Earth and his family in Texas.
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SPACE.com / A Russian spacecraft carrying two astronauts and the world's  first female space tourist rocked safely back to Earth while dangling from parachutes today a few hours after casting off from the International Space Station (ISS).
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Malaysia&#39;s soon-to-be first astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor said on Thursday he hoped to fast aboard the International Space Station as he visits there in the holy month of Ramadan.
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Seven astronauts returned to NASA's launch site Monday to take a new shot at flying space shuttle Atlantis to the international space station.
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SPACE.com / CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8211; Six astronauts and their shuttle Atlantis are safely back on Earth after returning NASA and its partners on a path to complete the International Space Station (ISS).