astronaut

Becoming a content creator has officially elbowed out old standbys like doctor and astronaut as the job that Gen Z and Gen Alpha most aspire to have.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Adenot, 44, will be the second European woman to conduct a spacewalk, after Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's mission in 2022.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Bosco Ortega, 12, wants to be an astronaut when he grows up but has until now lived in Cairo, where the light pollution means few stars can be seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

Dr. Shurley reported to Lovelace that Jerrie Cobb had high motivation to become an astronaut.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

“When we were little,” Natalie explains, “my sisters’ stuffed animals became astronauts, firefighters and chefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

As the agency pivots to putting astronauts on the moon, this $3-billion space-copter is the agency’s last large-scale mission to explore the solar system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The United States is competing with China in the race to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030, more than 50 years after humans first walked the lunar surface.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

That constant swirling is a driving force behind bursts of energy from the Sun, creating so-called space weather, that can disrupt Earth's power grids and satellites, and could even injure astronauts.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

I wanted my sisters to see the astronauts on the moon almost as badly as I had wanted them to see the Jackson Five on TV for the first time.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia