Astronaut

//ˈæstɹəˌnɔːt//

"Astronaut" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The astronaut was slow to get used to the condition of weightlessness.

The astronaut was seen to land on the moon.

The astronaut had to conduct many experiments in the space shuttle.

He is dreaming of becoming an astronaut.

The man whom she is going to marry is an astronaut.

She will be the first Japanese woman astronaut.

The astronaut lost his grip on the wrench and all he could do was watch in dismay as it floated serenely away.

Neil Armstrong was the first astronaut to walk on the moon.

It takes many years of training to become an astronaut.

Would you like to be an astronaut?

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Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.

The American astronauts in the competing Mercury program may have joked about being “Spam in a can,” but it seems clear that Korolev wanted to have plenty of cosmonauts on hand in case another rocket blew up.

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. […] Space doesn't just appear dark to astronauts aboard the space station.

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