Space flight for Nigerian girl
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A 17-year-old schoolgirl is to become the first Nigerian to experience a space flight.
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By Amanda Ricker, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 14--An Oklee, Minn., teacher is flying high -- all the way to space camp.
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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Three weeks after returning to Earth, teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan cheerfully carried out her first space education assignment Monday, sharing the magic of flying in orbit with children at Walt Disney World.
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An inflatable spacecraft designed as part of a project to put a hotel in space has successfully entered Earth's orbit.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigerian teen Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school.
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A giant leap is about to be made for womankind. When space shuttle Discovery blasts off Tuesday, a woman will be sitting in the commander's seat. And up at the international space station, a female skipper will be waiting to greet her.
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pioneering bid to win a $10 million (5.6 million pounds) prize and prove that space is open for business. space travel as ordinary as a Caribbean cruise.
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AHMEDABAD, India  - American astronaut Sunita Williams flew to India on Thursday to visit the home of her father's side of the family, and was welcomed and garlanded as a homecoming hero.
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On Monday Anousheh Ansari is scheduled to become the first woman to go into space as an amateur astronaut.
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By Andrew Buncombe  From the steppes of Kazakhstan, a wealthy Iranian-American woman was blasted off into space yesterday. In doing so, Anousheh Ansari set at least two records - becoming the first female Muslim and the first Iranian in orbit.
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The creator of the first privately financed craft to carry a human into space showed models of a new, bigger version.
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ORLANDO, Feb. 6 -- She prepared for the 950-mile drive from Houston with the discipline of someone who had flown 13 days in space. The steel mallet, folding knife and rubber tube were all catalogued on a handwritten list, police say. She had maps, she had bus schedules and she had a disguise....
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A little green artifact from Nigeria transforms normal nine-year old boy into multilingual, transcontinental cultural ambassador
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Science & environment: Flight goes ahead despite thermal shield cracks as two missions are headed by women for first time.
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As a girl, Bonnie Dunbar dreamed of building and flying her own space ships. She's done both, but the five-mission shuttle astronaut turned Museum of Flight president and CEO still gets excited about space.
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A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off Monday in Kazakhstan on a flight to the international space station.