Sentence examples for astronaut from inspiring English sources

With no training as an astronaut, she manages to get a job as a "mission specialist" on a space station – and things soon go horribly wrong.

There is a mention of Alexander Gerst, the German astronaut who last year blasted off to the International Space Station.

Just before they set off for the moon, fellow astronaut Arnold Bedford inquires: "I say, Cavor, we will be able to get back, won't we?" "I don't see why not," says Cavor vaguely.

Australian singer Jessica Mauboy performed before the Eurovision crowd and an estimated telecast audience of about 180m on Thursday night, ending with an onstage arrival of an astronaut holding an Aboriginal flag and stating it was "one small step for Europe, one giant leap for Australia".

Within just a few months we will see the overdue emergence of the private astronaut.

She can start packing for Bratislava, while Vladimír Remek, Czechoslovakia's first and only astronaut and a Communist MEP, can start packing for Moscow.

Dreams of launching an astronaut by 2016 have been scrapped; there is a new emphasis on commercial launches.

NASA rejected Dr Stone's application to be an astronaut.

But the venture also opens other commercial avenues, such as astronaut training and (as the arrangement with NOAA shows) the carriage of scientific experiments to the edge of the atmosphere.The agency's aim is to collect data on the distribution in the upper atmosphere of climate-affecting gases.

The astronaut then opens a hatch to climb into the spacesuit from the rear, seals himself in and detaches for a spacewalk.

Another ad shows astronaut-monkeys, and infers that Mr Feingold voted money to put them into orbit.