Comet Research Pioneer Fred Whipple Dies
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Fred Whipple, an astronomer who originated the idea that comets were comprised of ice and mineral dust, has died at the age of 97.
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and possibly help future scientists determine how to keep such space rocks from colliding with Earth. impactor on July 4, 2005, and the comet&#39;s rocky part will hit it at a speed of 23,800 miles an hour (10.
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The designer of the Mercury space capsules that took the first Americans into orbit has died at age 83, NASA announced Sunday. Maxime Faget led the space agency&#39;s engineering and development branch
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A native of Red Oak, Iowa, who was a pioneer in astronomy who proposed the &quot;dirty snowball&quot; theory for the substance of comets, has died.
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The mother of a U.S. astronaut who has  been in space since October was killed when a freight train hit  her car at a railroad crossing near Chicago, police said on  Thursday.
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Earl Ubell, 80, a print and broadcast medical and science journalist who covered the leading health and science breakthroughs of the post-war age in a lively and effective style, died May 30 at Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He had Parkinson's disease and dementia.
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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. - "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has died...
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first U.S. astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83, NASA said on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 5: Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven US astronauts who made the nationâs first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of The Right Stuff, died on Monday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, a British scientist who played a key role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday, his university said on Wednesday.
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Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the nation&#39;s first astronauts who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, died on Monday, NASA said.
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LONDON One of the scientists involved in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA has died. Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 for his role in what&#39;s considered one of the most important discoveries in science.
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GORDON Cooper, one of the original Mercury astronauts who pioneered the US role in outer space, died Monday at his home in Ventura, California, NASA announced.
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Veteran NASA flight director Donald R. Puddy, who supervised Apollo, Skylab and early space shuttle missions from Mission Control, has died.
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Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts who helped pioneer human space exploration, piloting the last of the Mercury missions and the troubled Gemini 5 flight, died on Monday.
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Appreciation: Folkman, who died Tuesday,  cured cancer in the lab and revolutionized treatment of the disease. His colleagues talk about the impact of the man and his research
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Dr. Judah Folkman, who discovered  that tumors generate their own network of tiny blood vessels to  nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical  School said on Tuesday.