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A 460-foot long asteroid sped close by Earth on Saturday night. It was about 2.5 times as far away as the moon, which in space terms is very little.
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RACINE — A local tavern owner raked in more than three times the amount he was seeking for charity with a St. Patrick’s Day shave.
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Suffragettes rioting in England, city Shriners journeying to Dallas and one of the city's first traffic fatalities greeted readers of The Times this day in 1913, as did stories of the approaching space flight of astronaut Gordon Cooper and the United States sending arms to Laos in 1963. Welcome to the past as laid out in the front pages of The Times.
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For the first time, the company's SpaceShipTwo ignites its rocket motor in mid-flight. Virgin Galactic now hopes to make its first passenger trip to space in 2014.With a sonic boom that resounded above the Mojave Desert, a rocket plane belonging to British billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space.
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RICHARD Branson is fired up about Virgin Galactic's planned first full space flight later this year after SpaceShipTwo's first powered flight last week.
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Three new members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew began the first-ever manned flight under a new six-hour flight program shortly after midnight on Friday Moscow time.
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Richard Branson's company will launch SpaceShipTwo on a test flight from Spaceport America in New Mexico - weather permitting. If it goes well, the first passenger flight into space could take place early next year.
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MOSCOW — A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked Friday with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six. Chris Cassidy of the United States and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin traveled six hours in the capsule before linking up with the space station's Russian Rassvet research module over...
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Veteran Russian spacecraft commander, a rookie cosmonaut and a Navy SEAL-turned-astronaut rocketed into space en route to the International Space Station
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