Sentence examples for the astronauts about from inspiring English sources

The surprise discovery of the green rock, by Commander Dave Scott and lunar module pilot Jim Irwin, sparked a lengthy debate among the astronauts about the boulder's true colour while Nasa controllers listened in.

He mentioned several times that it was being streamed live in classrooms across the country, and asked the astronauts about their daily routine and how they successfully did their jobs.

While the film leaves it mysterious, early script drafts spell out that HAL's breakdown is triggered by authorities on Earth who had ordered him to withhold information from the astronauts about the true purpose of the mission (this is also explained in the film's sequel 2010).

And then -- just about all the astronauts talk about this -- you look up and see this beautiful blue marble, warm and fragile, hanging in the black lunar sky.

It's the latter, obviously, but hold on for the big finish – the astronauts are about to make a shocking discovery.

But as the astronauts set about their secondary tasks, Kopra noticed an abnormal carbon dioxide reading on his spacesuit, and then a minor tear in one of his gloves.

It should be noted that at orbital altitudes near that of the International Space Station, the dose-equivalent to the astronauts is about 0.3 Sv per year (an absorbed dose of 1 Gy by alpha particles will lead to an equivalent dose of 20 Sv) (Thirsk et al. 2009), which means the effects of space radiation alone on ROS production may be not significant.

It's probably nothing, but Houston lets the astronauts know about debris from a missile strike on a Russian satellite... just a prototype, they say.

There was a even a little display that let you smell simulated moondust; I agree with what the astronauts said about the traces that were left on their spacesuits: It smells a little like spent gunpowder!

The astronauts would receive about 400 millisieverts on the way to Mars or about 40% of what Esa allows for its astronauts.

That reminded me of the moment in the novel "2001" when HAL, after discovering that the astronauts have doubts about him, decides to kill them.