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After a delay of 1 day due to bad weather, a Soyuz capsule has now safely landed in northeast Kazakhstan, bringing home 2 Russian cosmonauts and 1 American astronaut from their 5 month stint on the ISS. The next trip is planned to arrive in record time.
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Ottawa -
Dr. Marc Garneau stepped into history as Canada's first astronaut. In 2013 he entered the race for leader of Canada's Liberal Party in an ultimate quest to serve as chief executive: The Prime Minister of Canada.
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NASA Astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams competed in the Malibu triathlon while still being on board and commanding the International Space Station, becoming the first person to complete a "spaceathlon".
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Former U.S. astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, has died at the age of 82, Reuters is reporting on Saturday.
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Cincinnati -
Neil Armstrong, who turned 82 on Sunday, has undergone heart surgery to relieve four blocked coronary arteries. He is doing great, according to his wife.
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Sally Ride, who became the first American woman astronaut to go into space, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
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She's in top physical shape. She's a skilled fighter pilot. If these traits seem important for China's first female astronaut to have before launching into space this Saturday, so is this: No body odor.
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She's in top physical shape. She's a skilled fighter pilot. If these traits seem important for China's first female astronaut to have before launching into space this Saturday, so is this: No body odor.
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Houston -
NASA astronaut Jerry Ross, the first person to fly into space seven times, has retired from a career spanning over 30 years.
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Miami -
The sixth man to walk on the moon Edgar Mitchell, has agreed to relinquished claim of ownership of a "moon camera" he was keeping as souvenir of his 1971 moon mission. He took the decision to avoid a federal lawsuit contesting ownership.
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During the STS-131 mission's first spacewalk, which lasted about 6.5 hours, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio helped move a new 1,700-pound ammonia tank from space shuttle Discovery's cargo bay to a temporary parking place on the station, retrieved an experiment from the Japanese Kibo Laboratory exposed facility and replaced a Rate Gyro Assembly on one of the truss segments.
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