It was a typical misty morning on my early drive to Smiley Park, Nova Scotia. For a moment I regretted staying up until 3 am writing about horse racing in Moscow. But such is the life of a journalist. No high...
Guy Laliberte, 95% shareholder of $1.2-billion Cirque de Soleil, is in training this week in Moscow preparing for his trip into outer space. He is expected to leave Earth in September on a Russian Soyuz space...
An American space tourist was thrust into orbit today, his second trip into outer space. It was blast off time for US billionaire Charles Simonyi and the crew of the Russian rocket Soyuz, Thursday, amidst...
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The 18 occupants of the International Space Station hastily packed their bags in preparation for a quick escape as a result of a space debris collision warning. The Station has since safely passed by the debris...
You might think that ham-radio would have died-out in this age of cellular phones, but there's one place your phone can't call - space.Murray Crandon, Saskatchewan resident and ham-radio enthusiast has made...
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Richard Garriott, a visionary game designer, just couldn't resist adding the word 'astronaut' to his list of feats. Not enough to almost single-handedly make popular the massively multiplayer and role playing...
"U.S. business tycoon Richard Garriott b lasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War"
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Space shuttle obsolete, American atronauts fly from Russia to ISS; no war in sight. " STAR CITY, Russia: This place was once no place, a secret military base northeast of Moscow that did not show up on maps....
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" A political stalemate that threatened to boot the United States off the International Space Station eased on Thursday after U.S. lawmakers passed an exemption allowing NASA to buy rides from the Russians,...
" Russians believe cause of Soyuz problems foundRussian troubleshooters believe electrical arcing between the space environment and the international space station most likely caused recent problems with explosive bolts used to separate Soyuz re-entry vehicles just before...
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Ariane european Space transporter gets a second heavy load rocket the russian Soyuz-ST. First start 2010 from French Guyana Kourou (North south-america) The rocket will be able to get freight into space or,...
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NASA is planning to retire the Shuttle fleet in 2010, yet the schedule of its replacement is already slipping, according to the agency's 2008 budget request to Congress."This could increase the gap between the...
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Russia's Soyuz TMA-11 has landed in Kazakhstan, intact but off-course. ON board was a small international crew, including South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon."The crew are safe, but were subjected to severe...
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Flames danced against the dawning sky as the International Space Station's first woman commander and team mates were launched successfully from Baikonur Cosmodrome. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson,...
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"Drinking astronauts are nothing new
* Preview of article to be published 04 August 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
Anyone who has read Riding Rockets, Mike Mullane's account of his life as a shuttle...
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