Sentence examples for gain astronaut from inspiring English sources

The job taught him two tough lessons: one, his 20/400 eyesight would always keep him from taking the test to gain astronaut status, and two, you'll never be able to trust NASA-crats to figure out how to put civilians in space for a reasonable cost.

"The Impossible Astronaut" gained an Appreciation Index of 88 – considered excellent.

It was an aluminum structure resembling two wheels with a six-meter long central axle, ballasted with lead to give it a total mass of 3855 kg, which could be lifted by the "Canadarm" Remote Manipulator System – the Shuttle's "robot arm" – and moved around to help astronauts gain experience in using the system.

In the 90s a man named Jerry Whittredge posed as an astronaut to gain access to Nasa mission control.

In 1961 Lee and artist Jack Kirby created The Fantastic Four, about four astronauts who gain superpowers after a cosmic incident.

Piers Sellers, a climate scientist and former astronaut who gained fame late in life for his eloquent commentary about the earth's fragility and his own cancer diagnosis, has died.

Lisa M. Nowak, the disgraced astronaut who gained national attention last year when she was arrested on attempted kidnapping charges, has been immortalized in a variety of artistic works, including the Common song "Drivin' Me Wild," which contains the inspired lines, "Doing all she can for a man and a baby/Driving herself crazy like the astronaut lady".

His brother Mark, a former NASA astronaut who gained national attention after an assassination attempt on his wife, former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D AZ), was a guest at last year's speech.

"There was a long-standing knowledge gap about the ability of the astronauts to gain back the bone mass that was lost in space," says Jean Sibonga, lead scientist of NASA's Bone and Mineral Laboratory at Johnson Space Center.

During his nearly five-month stay in space, Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield gained quite the Twitter following by constantly posting updates about life in orbit, often with photos of locations around the globe.

Thursday's spacewalk was considered riskier than usual because the two astronauts had to use Russian-made spacesuits to gain access to the American part of the station.