Sentence examples for single astronaut from inspiring English sources

A1 New Frontier for China The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou 5 blasted off from the Gobi Desert, carrying a single astronaut.

At an altitude of about 130 miles, they steered into a coordinated orbit with a single astronaut aboard Soyuz 4. The two craft then maneuvered toward a safe docking.

In addition to paying Russia $71m for the privilege of sending a single astronaut to the ISS, the Pentagon relies solely on Russian-made RD-180 rockets for its launches and the country's current stockpiles – enough for two years – will not be of use if Roscosmos continues to sell engines under the new restrictions: "That they will not be used to launch military satellites".

That era, when every child in the country could name each and every single astronaut who manned the Apollo mission, was the zenith of education and innovation in this country.

I visit schools on a regular basis where I've seen that students are not just unable to name a single astronaut in our space program, but could not tell you the name of the first man to be sent into space.

Where we once did little more than monitor the vital signs of single astronauts on short-duration flights, we are now able to investigate the molecular basis for the physiological adaptations that accompany time spent in microgravity environments.

Though not left bereft of his traditional good ol' boy charms, this single father astronaut turned corn farmer character named Cooper calls for a snap judgment astrophysics kind of intelligence and a focused emotional intensity that raises the bar for McConaughey who meets every challenge with impressive grace and believability.

The engine hummed softly as its driver peered out from the extra-large Plexiglas windshield, a sheer single pane that resembled an astronaut's visor writ large.

Similar cytogenetic studies have been recently performed in a cohort of astronauts involved in single or repeated space flights over many years.

Friday's spacewalk was the third in a single week for the six astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station.

The operational platforms will serve as launching points for deep space exploration missions, characterized by a single long-duration mission during the astronaut's career.