astronaut
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Retired astronaut Barbara Morgan, who flew aboard Endeavour in 2007, said the shuttle will inspire space enthusiasts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
US astronaut Christina Koch, the first woman to take part in a lunar mission, was on Wednesday named the winner of a top Spanish prize for having "helped extend the frontiers of humanity".
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Rep. Jasmine Crockett and former astronaut Terry Virts in their unsuccessful Senate runs.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 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
“At the time, Dr. Ochoa was an astronaut on board the International Space Station. In order to reach her laptop, I had to hack into NASA, the Department of Defense, and Roscosmos.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Additional photographs taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed through the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
The shuttle was grounded, 14 astronauts had died in two disasters, and the hearing room was thick with the anxiety of a nation that feared it had lost a step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Nasa has named the four astronauts for its Artemis III mission, due to launch in 2027.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The human computers crunching all of those numbers—now that the astronauts understood.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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