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Astronaut
hideAn astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.
Until 2003, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military, or by civilian space agencies. However, with the sub-orbital flight of the privately-funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.
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News tagged with astronauts
Astronauts To Vote From Space
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In this day and age, people engage in their right to vote from all over the world. But this Nov. 4, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by two NASA astronauts.
Ulysses space mission to end
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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After 18.6 years in space and defying several earlier expectations of its demise, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter Ulysses will achieve 'end of mission' on 30 June 2009. The final communication pass with a ...
Space Robot Can Autonomously Reconfigure Itself
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A robot designed to work in space should ideally be a Jack of all trades, with the ability to perform a wide variety of tasks by itself. By having one robot that can handle many jobs, astronauts can cut down ...
A Second Look at Apollo 11
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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A month after LROC's first image of the Apollo 11 landing site was acquired, LRO passed over again providing the LROC instrument a new view of the historic site. ...
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to Help Astronauts Survive in Infinity
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Apr 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Space seems exotic, forbidding, and remote, but imagine trying to survive winter without a heated shelter or warm clothing. Our ancestors developed these technologies because they needed room ...
Beyond Apollo: Moon Tech Takes a Giant Leap
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Apr 09, 2009 |
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The flight computer onboard the Lunar Excursion Module, which landed on the Moon during the Apollo program, had a whopping 4 kilobytes of RAM and a 74 KB "hard drive." In places, the craft's outer skin was ...
Apollo astronaut Aldrin urges US to land on Mars
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Jun 19, 2009 |
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NASA should focus on sending a man to Mars and helping other nations travel in space, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin said Friday.
Space Station Room With a View
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) is about to get a new "eye-pod." The Tranquility node headed for the space station early in 2010 will feature a viewing dome unlike any other window ever flown ...
Stuck bolt, dead battery bedevil Hubble repairs
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May 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spacewalkers' specially designed tools couldn't dislodge a balky bolt interfering with repairs Sunday at the Hubble Space Telescope, so they took an approach more familiar to people puttering around ...
One sponge-like material, three different applications
May 17, 2009 |
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A new sponge-like material that is black, brittle and freeze-dried (just like the ice cream astronauts eat) can pull off some pretty impressive feats. Designed by Northwestern University chemists, it can remove mercury from ...
China plans space station with module launch in 2010
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Mar 01, 2009 |
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China will launch a space module next year and carry out the nation's first space docking in 2011 as a step towards its goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday.
'Space headaches' come out of the blue
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Jun 02, 2009 |
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Researchers are calling for space headache to be established as a new secondary disorder after carrying out a study of 17 astronauts, published in the June issue of Cephalalgia.
Hubble: From cosmic joke to cherished eye in space
May 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Using the power of pictures, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped away at the mystery of the universe.
New Project To Develop GPS-Like System For Moon
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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The same Ohio State University researcher who is helping rovers navigate on Mars is leading a new effort to help humans navigate on the moon.
Rescue shuttle moved to launch pad just in case
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Apr 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour is on a launch pad, ready to rocket off on a rescue mission if shuttle Atlantis needs help when it flies to repair the Hubble Space Telescope next month.
