astronaut
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“I think a lot of people have that entrepreneurial spirit,” Reisman, the former astronaut, told MarketWatch, adding that the IPO will “supercharge it.”
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
The UK now has more female astronauts than male, and John McFall became the world's first astronaut professionally certified to fly to the International Space Station with a physical disability.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
The astronaut creed instructs space crews to “launch as friends and land as friends.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Then he could have released an image of himself in the Artemis space capsule and told us he’s an astronaut and he’s thinking of building a string of Trump hotels on the moon.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
To retrieve the astronaut safely, we had to make sure that we understood the exact place and time that space capsule would touch down.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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