A person trained to travel in a spacecraft

Usage examples of astronaut.

Joe Kerwin, a medical astronaut with weeks in orbit, was unusually helpful on four different occasions.

It would be impossible to imagine a bachelor astronaut, because half his significance would be missing.

Huntsville will take responsibility for a couple, California for two or three, Mississippi for one, and Houston for its two, plus the astronaut program itself.

Asia, supervising intelligence flights over trouble spots like Korea and Vietnam when the first BuPers announcement was posted inviting any Navy fliers with test-pilot experience to volunteer for the pool from which a small group of men would be chosen for astronaut training.

Pope enormously, and he began a collection of major stories about the astronaut and his reception in various nations.

Pacific waters, but it did not, and when Pope reported for duty as executive officer he learned that his immediate assignment was to accompany the carrier out of Jacksonville and into the Caribbean, where it would serve as the principal recovery vessel for the three-orbit flight which Astronaut Scott Carpenter was about to make in his Mercury capsule Aurora-7.

Mercury flight, arrange for the orderly transfer of the astronaut to the carrier, and dispatch the proper messages to assure the world that the flight had ended safely.

When I cautioned you then against becoming an astronaut, I was thinking selfishly only of the Navy.

On the other hand, no astronaut, regardless of the pressure we put him under, has ever developed a gastric ulcer.

The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.

Usually she was far ahead of him in her shrewd analysis of the astronaut program, and her witty observations on the other men of the Solid Six were startling in their perceptions.

Motors had presented each astronaut with a Corvette, and the men loved these sleek, swift cars.

It was a tradition that when astronauts were cooped in their tiny quarters, hundreds of miles from anything and thousands of miles into an orbit, only one person on ground must be allowed to communicate with them lest there be confusion in commands or a babel of voices, and that one person must be a fellow astronaut, preferably one who had already flown.

Have developed a routine in which he is a Tex-Mex astronaut coming home after eleven months on the Moon, she pregnant.

Mott observed a growing testiness in the astronaut, and when he reached Houston he suggested that Pope be summoned back from Canaveral and be given some rest and recuperation.