That was the dream she fastened onto, desperately wanting to be a pilot or astronaut at a time when few women could aspire to such roles.
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The station is currently manned by three Russians, two Americans and a Japanese astronaut.
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Women can enter too, and nowhere in these ads (or on the contest website) do we see a female astronaut.
Chang'e I is intended to be the first in a series of missions that will eventually take a Chinese astronaut to the moon.
The skies above Earth are now littered with the debris of dead satellites, bits of old rockets and the odd tool dropped by a spacewalking astronaut.
Zhigang performed the first space walk by a Chinese astronaut.
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In addition to the lifeguard spot, Kate notes, there is a similar scenario involving a woman saved from a fire who later abandons the fireman for a male astronaut.
Roscosmos last June began a Mars flight simulation program, locking three Russians, two Europeans and a Chinese astronaut in an 18, 800-square-foot, five-module complex to live there in isolation for 17 months, Bloomberg reported on April 5.
The seat liners are key because the escape module -- if needed -- would land on the ground and the seats need to fit precisely to properly protect a returning astronaut or cosmonaut, according to Mark Ferring, the flight director for Alpha.
And then you had movies like "The Reluctant Astronaut" with Don Knotts becoming a very unlikely astronaut coming out of 1967.
While the findings that people like both power and choice is not entirely surprising in terms of career choice, considering the number of little kids who hope to be a doctor or astronaut as opposed to, say, a rest room attendant, the authors of the study are interested in what the two elements (power and choice) have in common.
Resembling a small child wearing an astronaut outfit with a backpack (for the battery power source), the ASIMO could walk on two feet at speeds at over three miles per hour.
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Ecolution, a 26m twin-masted schooner, is owned by Dr Ockels, a physicist and astronaut who became the first Dutch civilian in space, flying on the Challenger space shuttle on a Spacelab mission.
Barry, a retired NASA astronaut and physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, who was not involved with this study.
"Maybe there is a some possibility to launch by the spring, but I don't think anyone seriously thinks that the launch will be that soon, " said Norman Thagard, a former NASA astronaut and five-time shuttle flier.
The McDonald's on NASA Road One, just down the street from the Saturn Lane gate of the Johnson Space Center, featured a giant fiberglass astronaut floating out from the roof in the posture of one of the old Gemini spacewalkers, holding an order of fries in his outstretched left hand.
There are now at least a dozen space tourism endeavors worldwide, offering experiences that range from a flight to the fringe of space to astronaut training on a tropical island.
If the flight is only partly successful, it still promises to be the "spark that ignites a thriving industry, " former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, president of a trade group pushing such projects, told reporters said Thursday.
Flying in space has been a lifelong dream for astronaut Jose Hernandez, Discovery's Mission Specialist 2, since he was 9 years old.
It's an obsession shared by little boys the world over--like being a fireman or an astronaut--but most of them grow out of it.
Prior to Dextre being on board the station, this task would have had to be performed by an astronaut on a space walk.
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It featured a young woman saved from a shark by a handsome lifeguard, who subsequently ditches that lifeguard when a (male) astronaut turns up.
Mr. Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was an Apollo 17 astronaut and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico.
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The lunar samples would be the central feature of an "Apollo Exploration Award" to be given to every Apollo astronaut or a surviving family member.
Mission Control might also have to make some tough calls, like whether to tell an astronaut about a death in his or her family or other tragedies back home.
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Not only did the actor, pitchman and onetime Captain Kirk engage an in-orbit astronaut in a Twitter chat, he also joined the more raw world of Reddit and took a stand against what he saw as a culture there that permits a fair amount of racism and bigotry.
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This weekend marks the first time that a child of an American astronaut is going to blast off into space, and he's paying his own way after making a fortune in the videogame industry.
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