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astronaut
[ as-truh-nawt, -not ]
noun
- a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.
astronaut
/ ˈæstrəˌnɔːt /
astronaut
- A crew member of a space mission launched by the United States. ( See Apollo program and Mercury program .)
Word History and Origins
Origin of astronaut1
Word History and Origins
Origin of astronaut1
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Example Sentences
Later on, astronauts looked at the pellets after one, two and three years.
Being an astronaut is the ultimate idea of looking into what surrounds us by going there.
Though we may say that astronauts are weightless in space, what they’re actually experiencing is microgravity.
About 30 nonphysicians learned first aid from a software system designed to help astronauts.
Other simulated Mars missions suggest that astronauts isolated together could develop an us-versus-them mentality that would lead the crew to stop listening to mission control, which could be dangerous on a long mission.
On the second planet, they encounter a marooned astronaut named Dr. Mann, and a fistfight ensues.
Her long-term boyfriend Dave Clark is head of ‘astronaut relations’ for Virgin Galactic.
I asked a former NASA astronaut, who cannot be quoted on the record, to look at photographs of the debris.
“The astronaut phenomenon is destroying the Iraqi army,” one officer, Kadhim al-Shammari, told us.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi army is suffering badly from what locals describe as the “astronaut phenomenon.”
Of course, ground control was to be used only if the astronaut failed to ignite the retro-rockets himself.
The astronaut fell victim to a psychological stress that was unforeseen.
The parachute opened and the daring astronaut drifted towards the sea.
It would not surprise me to find that most of those languages have survived and that our distressed astronaut knows them all.
It would not surprise me to find that most of these languages have survived and that our distressed astronaut knows them all.
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