British-born astronaut given CBE
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The British-born astronaut Michael Foale is rewarded in the New Year Honours with a CBE in the diplomatic list.
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The inventor of the world wide web receives one of Britain's most prestigious honours, the Order of Merit.
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London (IANS) Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya of the University of Warwick has been selected for one of the highest British civilian honours, the Knights Bachelor, in the Queen s New Year honours list.
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Actor and comedian Hugh Laurie is made an OBE by the Queen during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
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The renowned physicist has always had a hankering for space travel. He'll start with a brief zero-gravity flight in April. By the Associated Press.
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An announcement was made today on the decision to award Three Star Orders (first category) to the former European Parliament President Pat Cox and former NATO Secretary General George Robertson for their ...
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A former British spy credited with using his cover as a passport officer to save thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany was honored as a hero Wednesday at his country's embassy in Berlin.
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French astronaut Leopold Eyharts has been named for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) to set up Europe's Columbus science module, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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The team behind the Beagle 2 mission to Mars has unveiled its design for the successor to the British spacecraft. At a London meeting, Colin Pillinger, lead scientist on the previous venture
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- The space station's newest astronaut will cast his ballot in the presidential election from 225 miles up, with NASA's help...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Sept. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Stella Felix of Nigeria on Saturday becomes the first high school student from Africa to experience the exhilaration of zero gravity on a parabolic flight from the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
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The European Space Agency says it has awarded a contract to a British satellite firm to help safeguard frequencies allotted to the Galileo satellite navigation system.
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John W. Young, Commander of First Shuttle Mission and NASA&#39;s Longest-Serving Astronaut, to Retire. HOUSTON Dec 8, 2004 - The longest serving astronaut in history, who flew twice to the moon and commanded
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EDMONTON - When the Da Vinci Project rocket finally makes an attempt to fly into outer space next year, it will carry aloft a soccer ball once kicked by English footballer David Beckham and an Ellen DeGeneres doll dressed in a flight suit.
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA officials and fellow space pioneers as "not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut."
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By DJC Staff  ENGINEERING  Daniel Garbely, a civil engineer at CH2M Hill, was recently named a New Face of Civil Engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
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Don't call him Sir Anthony Leggett just yet. Queen Elizabeth II put the University of Illinois physics professor and Nobel Prize winner, a British native, on her birthday knighthood list this summer, but he ...