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
I didn’t even get enough time to talk about becoming an astronaut and walking on Mars, or my favorite experiments or my best furry friend, Sir Fig.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Through the International Space Station Program and the ISS National Lab, astronauts regularly capture images of Earth that support scientific research and are made freely available to researchers and the public.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Seven astronauts, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, died, which was cause for public mourning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Scientists have gained new insight into the dramatic event that created the Moon's largest and oldest known impact crater, a discovery that could help future Artemis astronauts investigate some of the Moon's deepest secrets.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
The 2028 Artemis IV mission is scheduled to put American astronauts on the Moon for the first time since 1972.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
It was a similar problem to what astronauts faced when they traveled in space; the journey wreaked havoc on the fragile internal balance of bones, muscles, and nerves.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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