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.
Astronauts from around the world commented and tweeted their support and congratulations to the 43-year-old Baumgartner, including British astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, France astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
Last year's top MTV Video Music Award winner, for example, was the eclectic, hard-to-pigeonhole Beck, who took home five of the cable channel's odd-looking silver-astronaut trophies.
Honda's robot, Asimo, looks like a 4-foot-tall astronaut and can help the disabled at home.
Each lease is all-inclusive, covering a set number of flights for astronauts to and from the module per year, the assistance and support of an onboard Bigelow crew, station maintenance, living supplies, communications and astronaut-training programs.
Despite widespread misgivings, yet another American -- Michael Foale -- was placed on Mir when astronaut Jerry Linenger's 4 month-long tour came to an end last month.
The crew is led by Nasa astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, and includes Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and planetary sciences expert Steve Squyres.
Disabled individuals could adapt and perform as well as their able-bodied counterparts in space, said one former physician-astronaut.
Her brother-in-law, also an astronaut, is currently aboard the International Space Station.
How many of you wanted - or still want - to be an astronaut.
He was inspired in high school by NASA's first Hispanic astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz.
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.
"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 singer-songwriter-producer-designer-author named his record label Star Trak, selected the image of an astronaut to be the logo for his Billionaire Boys Club clothing line, and even named his son Rocket.
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Would-be astronaut Parker, who has dedicated her life to becoming an astronaut since watching the movie "Space Camp" at the age of 12, insists blasting-off would be reward enough.
But, thanks to ISS-based astronaut Sunita Williams, one we get to use today.
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Nasa astronaut Stan Love knows first-hand the difficulties with technology that his colleagues have experienced on the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.
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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Do expect Chinese astronauts to turn up at European astronaut training facilities, and vice-versa.
When else would we be able to share such delights as an astronaut triathlete, soft, color-changing robots and a recent response to a thirty-year-old alien broadcast?
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Rounding out the crew is two-flight veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa (robotic arm operator and flight engineer), rookie pilot Rick Husband and the commander, Kent Rominger, flying his fourth mission and his first in the left seat.
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.
He is also a former two-time space shuttle astronaut, having flown in 2008 and 2009.
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Mr. PETER HOMER (Winner, NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge): My goal - I had two goals going into the competition.
An astronaut, in the most proverbial floating-through-space sense, is a brave man who has the world gawking at him.
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And while the early suits were custom-tailored for each astronaut, NASA knew that lots of different people would be riding on the space shuttles.
He visits a Russian farm to look at the country's ambitions to be an agricultural superpower, checks out the Star City astronaut training center, meets with seven-foot boxing world champion-turned-movie star Nikolai Valuev and talks along the way with entrepreneurs and environmentalists working to make the city of Sochi home to green Olympics in 2014.
When he was selected for astronaut training he was working with the Anglo-Italian helicopter company AgustaWestland.
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