Mother of Astronaut Dies While He Is on Space Station; NASA Calls It a First
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Astronaut Daniel Tani, orbiting Earth aboard the international space station, learned Wednesday that his mother had died in a car crash, marking what NASA officials believe is the first time a crew member has lost a close family member while in flight.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The space-to-ground radio crackled recently with a message from Mission Control to U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and his two crewmates at the international space station.
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By Associated Press  HOUSTON - It's a junkyard out there in space and sometimes astronauts accidentally contribute to the litter.  In 1965, the first American spacewalker, Ed White, lost a glove when he went outside for the first time.
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The main oxygen generator on the International Space Station has failed, but NASA said Thursday there is plenty of oxygen on board to sustain the station&#39;s inhabitants for the foreseeable future.
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American NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, bottom, Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, center, and Russian Yuri Shargin, top, wave just before their launch at the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakstan, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER ORLANDO, Fla. - Until a few months ago, Lisa Nowak's life seemed to be on a perfect trajectory. She became an astronaut after winning a series of Navy service awards. She had flown on the shuttle Discovery, and was a mother of three children.
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Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper  collapsed twice during a welcome-home ceremony on Friday, a day  after returning to Earth from a 12-day mission on space shuttle  Atlantis.
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The mother of an astronaut stuck aboard the International Space Station by shuttle delays was killed this week when a freight train struck her car in Chicago.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  HOUSTON - An oxygen generator on the international space station overheated and spilled a toxic irritant Monday, forcing the three-man crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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By RASHA MADKOUR and DAVID CRARY HOUSTON - Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three. Her background - high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot - seemed to equip her for the challenge.
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Mike Fincke&#39;s new baby is on the astronaut&#39;s mind as he returns to Earth today, though she might not know it. &quot;I&#39;m very concerned she doesn&#39;t know who her father is,&quot; Fincke told reporters
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By Keith McLeod  A RUNRIG CD which survived the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster is to go on display in an exhibition about the band.  Astronaut Laurel Clark, 41, played their album Stamping Ground in orbit days before all seven crew were killed when the shuttle broke up on re-entry.
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AS A FORMER NASA astronaut training manager responsible for crew training for shuttle missions, I was not entirely surprised by the initial reports of the sad, bizarre case of Lisa Marie Nowak.   This isn't the first case of astronauts having difficulties in their personal lives.
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THE longest serving astronaut in history, who flew twice to the moon and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has announced his retirement after 42 years at Nasa.
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Eagle residents Stan and June Swanson are at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today, eagerly anticipating their son's return to Earth. Steve Swanson, the youngest of the couple's four children, has been in space for 13 days as part of the seven-member crew of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper poked her head out of an airlock Tuesday to begin installing a new addition to the international space station, she joined an elite club of women who have gone on spacewalks.