U.S. Citizen Charles Simonyi Ready for Space Flight
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MOSCOW. March 12 (Interfax-AVN) - U.S. citizen Charles Simonyi has successfully completed training for a manned flight to the International Space Station (ISS), which is scheduled to take place this April, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said.
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MOSCOW -- Russia&#39;s Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country&#39;s dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration.
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BANGALORE, India India&#39;s space agency is ready to send a man into space within seven years if the government gives the nod, while preparations have already begun for the launching of an unmanned lunar mission, a top official said Sunday.
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NASAÂs administrator said joint human spaceflights will have to wait until there is more trust and openness between the U.S. and China.
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Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft &#151; breaking the nearly 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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Pentagon space shield plan raises stakes with Russia - and local Czechs.
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With NASA now actively planning for the day when astronauts will live for months on the moon or make the years-long flight to Mars and back, a potentially troublesome question is being raised with increasing urgency: Is the human body -- even a well-protected human body -- capable of living in space...
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By John Schwartz THE NEW YORK TIMES  Like most of today's astronauts, Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak worked in relative obscurity -- even last July, when she took the spaceflight that she had spent 10 years at NASA hoping for.
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ARKALYK, Kazakhstan A US-Russian space crew is preparing to leave the International Space Station and return to Earth, ending a six-month mission.
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By Keith Whamond, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 6--If you were to take a poll of all the nearly 900,000 members of the Boy Scouts of America and ask them all what they'd like to be when they grow up, chances are that the top answer would probably be astronaut.
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Days away from ending a six-month mission in space, U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke said on Wednesday he is looking forward to meeting his 4-month-old daughter.
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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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Space travel should make human beings more aware of the fragility of the Earth's environment and intensify efforts to preserve the planet, &quot;space tourist&quot; Anousheh Ansari said before her trip to the International Space Station.
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South Korea announced Wednesday that a 30-year-old expert in artificial intelligence will be the country's first person in space when he flies on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year.
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The commander of the International Space Station (ISS) is aiming for the all-time U.S. spacewalking record as he and a fellow astronaut prepare to venture outside their orbital laboratory for the third time in nine days.
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When a privately built rocket plane soared into space earlier this month, astronaut wannabes were giddy with the hope that they&#39;d finally make it off the planet.
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SEATTLE, Feb. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., the fifth private space explorer, announced today that his Web site http://www.charlesinspace.com/ now features rich new content including training video and personal interviews. Additionally, Dr.