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Spacewalking astronauts stymied by sticky bolts
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Sticky bolts proved too much for a pair of spacewalking astronauts. Two spacewalking astronauts tried for hours Thursday to install a new power-switching box outside the...
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Soyuz with astronauts docks with space station
Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station, Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (AP photo) ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) – A Russian spacecraft carrying three astronauts and a consignment of fish has...
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Astronauts take spacewalk to find ammonia leak
Expedition 33 spacewalkers Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide completed a 6 hour, 38 minute spacewalk at 3:08 p.m. EDT to repair an ammonia leak in one of the station’s radiators. (Photo credit:...
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Astronauts face radiation threat on long Mars trip
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they’d get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported...
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NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years. Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A...
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NASA recycles spacecraft to search for asteroids
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – A NASA spacecraft currently in hibernation will be restarted to search for asteroids that astronauts could potentially explore. The space agency said Wednesday it will awaken...
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Scott Carpenter, 2nd US astronaut in orbit dies
DENVER (AP) — Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth and first person to explore both the heights of space and depths of the ocean, died Thursday after a stroke. He was 88....
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NASA could have prevented spacewalker’s close call
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA could have prevented last summer’s near-drowning of a spacewalking astronaut at the International Space Station, an investigation panel concluded Wednesday. Italian...
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Astronaut John Glenn, 92, has heart procedure
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former astronaut and U.S. senator John Glenn has had a heart valve replacement as he approaches his 93rd birthday. Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, was recuperating, a...
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Cosmic caffeine: Astronauts getting espresso maker
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Talk about a cosmic caffeine jolt. The International Space Station is getting a real Italian espresso machine. Astronauts of all nationalities — but especially the Italians...
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