Sentence examples similar to astronaut group from inspiring English sources

However, she was not selected in the final astronaut groups.

Space programme official Wu Ping said at a briefing: "The astronaut flight group is in good condition, prelaunch preparations are basically ready".

Glenn was the last surviving member of the very first class of NASA astronauts, a group known as the "Mercury Seven," and was the third American to go into space.

With the advent of long-duration missions on the ISS, the distinction between pilot astronauts and mission specialists has become less rigid; an astronaut from either group can be a candidate for assignment to a station mission.

"Previous to this study nobody had ever looked at their long-term health consequences - really pulling out the Apollo astronauts out of the group of other astronauts".

Scott Carpenter, who has died aged 88, was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, the initial group selected by Nasa to go into space, and the second American to orbit the Earth.

____ 4. The first woman pilot who passed all of the tests undertaken by the first group of astronauts, but not accepted into the astronaut corps because she was a woman.

Some time in the future a group of astronauts are in a classroom.

White was selected in 1962 as a member of the second group of astronauts.

In 1963 he was named in the second group of astronauts.

In 1962 he was chosen as a member of the second group of astronauts.