astronaut
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That astronaut who called me from space didn’t just watch a television show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
They could then compare those results with lunar rocks returned to Earth from different locations by astronaut missions and unmanned spacecraft.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Meir previously made history in 2019 when she and Nasa astronaut Christina Koch completed the first ever all-female spacewalk.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
During this time we began considering a plan to send astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. into the atmosphere.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Their analysis indicated that protein fermentation in the intestines increases when astronauts leave Earth and enter microgravity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Scott Tingle, chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson, likewise highlighted the influence the two astronauts have had on NASA's astronaut corps.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
The engineers who built Silicon Valley, the astronauts who went to space, the scientists pushing the edges of medicine and artificial intelligence — many of them trace a line back to this show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Isaacman said that “all the ingredients that need to come together to put astronauts on the surface of the moon are being changed to get to the outcome.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The first astronauts, those chosen few, experienced what once was only found in science fiction books.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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