Article: China to launch space mission in late September
AP Worldstream;  September 7, 2008 ;     152 words ......late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said. The Shenzhou...into space, one of whom will conduct a space walk, the report said, citing Zhao Changxi, a senior scientist with the project. The space walk will be broadcast live using cameras...

Article: Voskhod
Space Sciences;      584 words ......spacecraft to keep the Soviet Union ahead in the space race of the 1960s while they developed their advanced...first multiperson spaceflight and achieved the first space walk ahead of the American Gemini astronauts. Voskhod...To permit a Soviet cosmonaut to perform the first space walk, ...

Article: Have Space Suit Will Travel.(Brief Article)(Audiobook Review)
Kliatt;  May 1, 2004 ;     201 words ...HAVE SPACE SUIT WILL TRAVEL. Robert A. Heinlein. 1958...author notes. JSA Kip Russell wins a space suit that had actually been worn by an astronaut...journey of 167,000 light years with his space suit Oscar, where he and a younger child...

Article: Out-of-this-world records!(READ A CHART)
WR News, Edition 4 (including Science Spin);  May 4, 2007 ;     228 words ......Edward H. White II 2. In which year did the first American space walk occur? (A) 1963 (B) 1965 (C) 1983 3. How many years after...American Edward H. Gemini 4 June 3, to complete a White II 1965 space walk First American Sally K. Ride Challenger June 18, woman in...

Article: Houston physician is first black to walk in space. (black astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr.) (Brief Article)
Jet;  February 27, 1995 ;     172 words ......it comes during Black History Month. I get emotional when I think about it. And I'd like to dedicate this space walk--my first space walk as an African American, to all African Americans, to African American achievement. Harris, who is married...

Article: Sullivan, Kathryn
Space Sciences;      293 words ......STS-41G in 1984, on which she performed her history-making space walk; * STS-31 in April 1990, which deployed the Hubble Space...National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. . * A space walk is also known as an extravehicular activity or EVA.

Article: NASA halts space suit contract with Texas firm
AP Online;  August 15, 2008 ;     386 words ......supply the space agency's next-generation space suit. NASA said it determined that an unspecified...Corp., and ILC Dover, has supplied the space suit since the 1960s. Last month, it protested...efficiency in the contracting process. The space suit, called an EVA (Extra Vehicular ...

Article: Lunar scoop and space suit patches among items up for auction
AP Worldstream;  March 24, 2008 ;     191 words ...The space suit patches from astronaut Buzz Aldrin's Gemini 12 space suit are expected to sell for as much as $75,000 (48,628) at a public auction Tuesday. Aldrin's patches _ given to his parents in 19666 with a grateful son's love, according to...

Article: Pliers From Apollo Mission Fetch $30,000
AP Online;  March 26, 2008 ;     207 words ......needle nose pliers used on the Apollo 16 lunar module sold for more than $33,000, while the space suit patches from Buzz Aldrin's Gemini 12 space suit were sold for nearly $30,000. The item with the most expensive minimum required bid went unsold...

Article: Word power.(BRAIN BUILDERS)
WR News, Senior Edition (including Science Spin);  September 26, 2008 ;     60 words ......B) explore (C) send 2. Something on the cusp is --. (A) on the edge (B) on the top (C) in the center 3. A lunar surface is on (A) Mars (B) Earth (C) the moon 4. A rover is a --. (A) space suit (B) spacecraft (C) space dog 1. C, 2. A, 3. C, 4. B

Article: Needle nose pliers from Apollo 10 mission fetch $30,000 at auction
AP Worldstream;  March 26, 2008 ;     221 words ......nose pliers used on the Apollo 16 lunar module sold for more than $33,000, (21,196), while the space suit patches from Buzz Aldrin's Gemini 12 space suit were sold for nearly $30,000 (19,269). The item with the most expensive minimum required bid...

Article: Space junk.
Highlights for Children;  October 1, 2007 ;     671 words ......dropped a large vise while he was on a space walk. The vise had floated away. Now it was...too. It started with the first American space walk in 1965. Astronaut Edward White lost...drifted off into space. In 1971, during a space walk by Apollo astronauts, a toothbrush and...

Article: The Space Program: Project Gemini
American Decades;      700+ words ...THE SPACE PROGRAM: PROJECT GEMINI Working toward Kennedy...Edward H. White, II, USAF 4 days, 1 hr., 56 mins. space walk 5 21 August 1965 Lt. Col. Leroy Gordon Cooper...Comdr. Eugene A. Cernan, USN 3 days, 21 mins. space walk 10 18 July 1966 Comdr. John W. Young, USN Maj...the Soviets stole the ...

Article: ADVISORY/Drexel Graduate Paul Richards to Walk in Space On NASA Mission STS-102 to International Space Station.
Business Wire;  March 6, 2001 ;     345 words ......Constantine Papadakis. Mission Specs: -- Members of Expedition One space walk to install Discovery's primary cargo, the Leonardo Multipurpose...Launch -- Thursday, March 8, 2001, at 6:42 a.m. EST Richards' Space Walk -- Tuesday, March 13, 2001, 12:47 - 4:47 a.m. (Can actually...