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...Beijing Olympics, China proved it was best in the world at coming in first. Now the country will show it can also be very happy with bronze. Later this week, 43 years after cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes outside an orbiting spacecraft, China plans to become the third nation after the Soviet Union and the U.S. to conduct its own spacewalk...
...miles and $2,000 to get weightless on a Russian Ilyushin 76 cargo plane used for space training, 11 km above the earth. In 2004, eight people redeemed air miles with Space Adventures for these types of flights at the formerly top-secret Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow...
...Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder weightless on a Russian Ilyushin 76 cargo plane used for space training, 11 km above the earth. In 2004, eight people redeemed air miles with Space Adventures for these types of flights at the formerly top-secret Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow; that's a giant leap from 2003, when only three people redeemed. Space Adventures' first client was American businessman Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million of his own money to go to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft...
...Aiming higher than in his crooning days, he's a trained cosmonaut and wants to visit the moon...
...DIED. ANDRIAN NIKOLAYEV, 74, Russian cosmonaut whose 1962 space flight set an endurance record; in Cheboksary, Chuvash Autonomous Republic. Nikolayev circled the earth 64 times in 96 hours in his record-breaking flight, during which he also became the first man in orbit to appear live on television. In 1963 he married Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, reportedly to help the Soviets study the effects of space travel on human reproduction. The couple bore two children, but divorced...