astronaut
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Winocour has often made films about women balancing their public-facing life with their private selves In 2019’s “Proxima,” Eva Green played an astronaut missing her young daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Rep. Jasmine Crockett and former astronaut Terry Virts in their unsuccessful Senate runs.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
Eight years later, the Dragon spacecraft carried its first astronaut to the ISS, beating other aerospace companies like Boeing to becoming the main American transport to the space station.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
He launched aboard Soyuz MS-22 on Sept. 21, 2022, and returned on Sept. 27, 2023, after spending 371 days in orbit, setting the record for the longest single space mission by an American astronaut.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
The very first time he traveled into the atmosphere and put his life on the line, one of our nation’s heroes, astronaut John Glenn, knew that he could count on me.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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China also aims to land astronauts on the moon by 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Later impacts inside the SPA basin may have dug into these buried deposits and exposed some of them at the surface, potentially making them accessible to robotic missions and future astronauts.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
Once launched, Starship will meet Orion in orbit and remain docked for approximately one day while engineers and astronauts carry out additional testing and system evaluations.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
The shuttle was grounded, 14 astronauts had died in two disasters, and the hearing room was thick with the anxiety of a nation that feared it had lost a step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The astronauts float around inside the space shuttle’s cramped quarters, where there is no gravity.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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