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It put its first astronaut into orbit in 2003.
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Brazil's first astronaut blasted off into space today with a Russian-US crew bound for the orbiting International Space Station.
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Security reached was tight today at Florida's Cape Canaveral as Nasa prepared to blast Israel's first astronaut into space.
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Peake, 43, became the first astronaut representing the British government and wore a Union Jack flag on his arm.
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There were five Americans, one Indian immigrant and one Israeli (that country's first astronaut) aboard the Columbia.
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On 15 December, Tim Peake will launch into space to become Britain's first astronaut on board the International Space Station.
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The "tokhtar" is a potato developed in space and named after Kazakhstan's first astronaut, the eponymous Tokhtar Aubakirov.
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What a delivery that would be; tantamount, he thought, to displaying the capsule that had taken the first astronaut into space.
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Norah is the most inspiring person ever, with what she has been doing in her quest to become Ireland's first astronaut.
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Flags were lowered to half-mast, and at its weekly meeting yesterday the cabinet hailed the country's first astronaut as a national hero.
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Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made the strange declaration that he is ready to risk of being the county's first astronaut sent into space.
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The crew, comprising a Russian, an American, and Britain's first astronaut Tim Peake, had spent six months on the space station in Earth's orbit.
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The fourth such launch took place on Monday in what is probably a final test before China sends its first astronaut into orbit around earth.
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Aeronautical engineer Dr Norah Patten, on course to be Ireland's first astronaut, honed her fascination with the night sky making model rockets from washing-up bottles.
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By 2019, Iran plans to send its first astronauts into space.
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Nasa has already selected its first astronauts to fly aboard a crewed Dragon.