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• Space toilet goes on the fritz ... again!
The master bathroom for three astronauts aboard the international space station is on the fritz again, just days before a trio of new spacefliers are due to launch toward the orbiting lab, NASA officials said Friday. A temporary telemetry glitch also ...
• Former astronaut Alan Bean on artistic voyage
But once he left NASA in 1981 after 18 years, Bean began his artistic career in earnest, mining his own memories to capture images of faraway worlds. One of an elite dozen astronauts who have walked on the moon, Bean the artist found a new mission: to ...
• Space millionaire confident ahead of liftoff
But I have definitely felt some tensions coming across from the political side of the U.S. but even that has been minor," he said. "If you look at the cosmonauts or astronauts, every one of them makes it very clear: we believe that space is a non ...
• Obama plans prime-time TV ad before Nov. 4
In it, Obama recalls being a child, sitting on his grandfather's shoulders and waving an American flag as they watched astronauts return from a splashdown. "And my grandfather would say, 'Boy, Americans, we can do anything when we put our minds to it ...
• Elite club lets space tourist cut in line
... into orbit in 2011 in what will be the first completely privately funded Soyuz mission to the space station. Meanwhile, the firm will turn its attention to Garriott's launch on Sunday. He will blast off alongside two professional astronauts to replace ...