Russian cosmonaut slaps golf ball into orbit
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Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin smacked a golf ball into orbit off the International Space Station on Wednesday to raise money for the Russian space program during a spacewalk cut short by a balky spacesuit.
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Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin hit a golf ball into Earth's orbit from the International Space Station on Wednesday to raise money for the Russian space program at the start of a six-hour spacewalk.
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An updated version of Russia&#39;s venerable Soyuz rocket took its first flight Monday, placing a dummy satellite into orbit during a successful qualification launch.
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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Powerplay Golf is launched with the aim of making the same impact as Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens.
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In a promotion for a Canadian manufacturer of golf clubs, a Russian astronaut used a 6-iron to drive a 10-ounce golf ball off the International Space Station.
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A Russian spacecraft will deliver the first Russian space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, the head of the national space agency Roskosmos said on Friday.
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MOJAVE, California A test pilot returned successfully to Earth on Wednesday after a foray into space that was marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in about 16 seconds and he had to fight to regain control.
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The capsule carrying the world's first female space tourist touched down Friday on the Kazakh steppe after a bone-jarring journey from the international space station.
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A Russian cosmonaut set a new record for the longest golf  drive in history today after hitting a lightweight ball while tethered to the outside of  the International Space Station (ISS).
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A FOUNDING father of space exploration is landing in Glasgow to help inspire science students.  In 1965 Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, now 73, became the first man to walk in space. He will be recalling his space adventures to help launch Careers Scotland's Festival of Science.
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Russia successfully launches Europe's most powerful telecommunications satellite.
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It's not Superman. It's Russian satellites.
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A rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the international space station streaked into orbit on Thursday, the latest flight of a Russian space vehicle to fill in for grounded US shuttles.
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The first test launch of a new rocket carrier, the Soyuz-2 (Rus), was carried out successfully today from the Plesetsk cosmodrome [in Arkhangelsk Region] at 2130 [Moscow time, 1830 gmt].
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A Russian Soyuz rocket is due to blast off from the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan early Thursday. Astronaut Leroy Chiao and cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipovalso will observe conditions on
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By Mike Eckel THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off today on a flight to the international space station.