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Astronauts are also required to accumulate a number of flight hours in high-performance jet aircraft. This is mostly done in T-38 jet aircraft out of Ellington Field, due ...
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Official NASA biographies of current astronauts, former astronauts, astronaut candidates, and payload specialists.
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Astronaut Information on the NASA Web. NASA Astronauts; Biographical Data. Astronaut Biographies Home Page. Astronauts; Astronaut Candidate Class ...
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Astronaut Journals. Space missions and spaceflight training often inspire astronauts to write about their experiences. Here is a collection of letters, reports and ...
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This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people trained by a manned spaceflight program to command, fly as a pilot, or serve as a crew member of a manned spacecraft.
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NASA, the world's leader in space and aeronautics, is always seeking outstanding scientists ...
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From Yahoo! News: A spacecraft circling the moon has snapped the sharpest photos ever of the tracks and trash left behind by Apollo astronauts in their visits from ...
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Every two years, NASA must make the difficult decision of selecting new members of the astronaut corps. From thousands of applications that are sent in from all over ...
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noun a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight. Origin: 1925–30; astro- + (aero)naut , probably via French astronaute; see astronautical Can be confused ...
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Astronauts, which are also known as cosmonauts, are trained to serve in space on spacecraft. The term is also often used for scientists and others who travel in space ...
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