Two Koreans are competing to become the first astronaut from their country to go into space aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.
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Santhosh George Kulangara, set to become the first Indian space tourist aboard a Virgin Galactic flight, will undergo microgravity training in Florida on Aug. 11.
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NASA and Microsoft have teamed to give computer users a 3-D look of the space shuttle Endeavour as it is prepared for launch.
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The prospects for launching the space shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday are good. The shuttle, with teacher-in-space Barbara Morgan on board, will visit ISS.
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Barbara Morgan, a teacher who was backup to Christa McAuliffe on the ill-fated Challenger mission, is scheduled to fly into space on Endeavour on Wednesday.
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Cmdr. Scott J. Kelly, commander of the space shuttle mission scheduled for launch on Wednesday, says that recent reports of alcohol use by astronauts have been exaggerated.
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco will attend the space shuttle launch in Florida this week, according to her office.
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When space shuttle Endeavour blasts off from Cape Canaveral on its STS-118 mission, it will be carrying two experiments built at NASA’s Glenn Research Center: the Smoke Aerosol Measurement Experiment (SAME) and the Coarsening in Solid-Liquid Mixtures-2 (CSLM-2) Experiment.
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NASA is planning a spacecraft called Cradle to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
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ESA’s Mars Express orbiter will monitor the descent and landing of NASA’s Phoenix lander at the Martian south pole.
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