Sentence examples for become the first human from inspiring English sources

Before long, in response to pressure from the doddering generals who control his financing, the impatient Sebastian decides to become the first human to undergo the process.

A bony, antic Cajun, Borel finds himself in position to become the first human to "win" the Triple Crown by riding different horses.

The Norwegian achieved his peak rating of 2882 in May 2014 when it seemed he would become the first human to reach 2900.

Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner will today attempt to become the first human being to break the sound barrier without any mechanical help.

His meditation led him to true victory over human passion and, according to the beliefs of the Digambara sect of Jainism, enabled him to become the first human of this kalpa (world age) to gain liberation.

At the end of the selection process, 24 individuals will be selected to become Mars One astronauts, and the four astronauts selected to become the first human settlers on Mars will land on the planet by 2023.

Since the Voyagers would become the first human-made objects to leave our solar system altogether, entering the wilds of interstellar space, they were fitted with copies of the so-called Golden Record, a collection of music, sounds, and images from Earth.

Later this month the US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will embark on a mission to the International Space Station that will see them become the first humans in history to spend an entire year off-planet.

Then he brought Tenzing up on a tight rope, and together they climbed the final 300 feet to become the first humans to stand on the summit of Mount Everest.

"The laws of physics say that someday Voyager will become the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, but we still do not know exactly when that someday will be," Ed Stone, the Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a Nasa statement.

In 1912, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team fought more than exhaustion and cold on their famous quest to become the first humans to reach the South Pole.