The European Space Agency similarly uses the term astronaut for members of its Astronaut Corps.

I want to be an astronaut.

Philip Kenyon Chapman (born 5 March 1935) was the first Australian born American astronaut, serving for about five years in NASA Astronaut Group 6 (1967).

In 1992, he was accepted into the Canadian astronaut program by the Canadian Space Agency.

Karen LuJean Nyberg (born October 7, 1969) is an American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut.

During his short mission to the ISS, European astronaut Andre Kuipers carried out an intensive programme of experiments.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former U.S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States senator.

Chris Austin Hadfield (born 29 August 1959) is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space.

Russian By convention, an astronaut employed by the Russian Federal Space Agency (or its Soviet predecessor) is called a cosmonaut in English texts.

Earthrise is the name given to a photograph of the Earth taken by astronaut William Anders in 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.

In addition, a Malaysian astronaut would soon be launched into space under a joint programme with the Russian Federation focusing on science and education.

An astronaut (or cosmonaut) is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

Upon its release, it became apparent that the album essentially had two covers the astronaut cover was a slipcase, while the original design used for Upravleniye Otbrosami appeared inside.

Apart from the inherent dangers of crewed Moon expeditions as seen with Apollo 13, one reason for their cessation according to astronaut Alan Bean is the cost it imposes in government subsidies.

On March 30, 2006, AEB astronaut Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian and the first native Portuguese speaking person to go into space, where he stayed on the International Space Station for a week.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently in space aboard the International Space Station, is sharing pictures of breathtaking views from around the world on Twitter. Here are a few shots he shares of the Middle East from space.

This is not simply a difference in roles it is a hierarchised difference. There is no doubt in peoples' mind that an astronaut is a harder thing to become compared to someone who can vacuum a house.

In attendance were Armstrong's Apollo 11 crewmates, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin Eugene A. Cernan, the Apollo 17 mission commander and last man to walk on the Moon and former Senator and astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth.

The press release disappeared from the site shortly afterward, only to re appear on 8 October with a change made to the cover art where there was once the face of a smiling astronaut on the original design, a black square now appeared.

I heard astronaut Joe Allen explain how he had to learn everything he could about his life support system and then do everything he could to take care of his life support system and then he pointed to this and he said, Life support system.

I wanted to be an astronaut, so I've constantly followed what are the tools available to monitor Earth from outer space and that we have incredible tools like we've been learning about, in terms of being able to follow tagged species throughout their life cycles in the open ocean.

And so for me, it was really exciting just to see what it looks like if you could step outside and into a larger context, as though you were an astronaut, and see these two things as an object, because they are so intimately bound, and one is meaningless without the other.

The spaceship transported a crew consisting of United States astronaut Leroy Chiao and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and also cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, who went for a 10 day orbital mission and then returned on 24 October together with the crew of the ninth main mission who had worked on the Station for six months.