astronaut
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"I think all these skills really lend themselves really well to training for being an astronaut but also living and working in space as well."
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
A Hong Kong astronaut has been launched into space for the first time, aboard China's Shenzhou-23 spacecraft.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
The team comprises Lai Ka-ying, hailed by state media as Hong Kong's first astronaut, Zhu Yangzhu and Zhang Zhiyuan, the spokesman said.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
I was like an astronaut returning to Earth, getting reacquainted with my own muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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