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Canadian to command space station

added on 2010-09-03 00:30:44 (BBC News | World | UK Edition)

The Canadian Space Agency announces astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station in 2013. ...more.

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UK astronaut makes zero-g flight

added on 2010-05-11 13:31:07 (BBC News - News Front Page)

British astronaut candidate Tim Peake experiences weightlessness for the first time on special training aeroplane. ...more.

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Japan 'Mum Astronaut' alters view

added on 2010-04-07 07:31:04 (BBC News | World | UK Edition)

Japan's first female astronauts are challenging gender roles in a conservative society. ...more.

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Soyuz Booster Rockets Blasts off to ISS with Two Cosmonauts and NASA Astronaut

added on 2010-04-02 16:01:30 (Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis)

A Russian spacecraft Soyuz roared to life and rocketed away from its launching pad in Kazakhstan early Friday, carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on a two-day flight to the International Space Station. ...more.

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Spaceman

added on 2010-03-25 20:00:47 (BBC News - News Front Page)

'Make it so!' Talking to the 'world's top astronaut' ...more.

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Spaceman

added on 2010-03-21 15:00:49 (BBC News - News Front Page)

When Britain had a small astronaut corps ...more.

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Criticism mounts against Obama's plans to change NASA strategy

added on 2010-03-10 00:01:17 (Washington Post - Politics)

Harrison Schmitt's credentials as a space policy analyst include several days of walking on the moon. The Apollo 17 astronaut, who is also a former U.S. senator, is aghast at what President Obama is doing to the space program. ...more.

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Soyuz Booster Rocket 100 Times More Reliable Than US Shuttles

added on 2010-02-04 17:01:42 (Pravda.Ru: Russian news and analysis)

Richard Garriott, a videogame developer, who once boarded Russia�s Soyuz rocket for a space flight said that the Russian-made ship was much more reliable than its foreign analogues. Garriott, whose father is a former NASA astronaut, paid $30 million for a flight to the iInternational Space station. He said in a televised conference that Soyuz was 100 times more a reliable spacecraft than USA�s shuttles ...more.

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