NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a Manned Maneuvering Unit outside Space Shuttle Challenger on shuttle mission STS-41-B in 1984. An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον (astron), meaning 'star', and ναύτης (nautes), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft ...
Astronaut, designation, derived from the Greek words for ‘star’ and ‘sailor,’ commonly applied in the West to an individual who has flown in outer space. As of 2022, 587 individuals from 41 countries had gone into orbit; 518 of these space fliers were men and 69 were women.
Become An Astronaut NASA astronauts have been traveling to space for more than six decades and living there continuously since 2000. Now, NASA’s Artemis program is preparing to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon. The Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will carry humans farther into space than they have gone before—for missions to the Moon and ...
Apollo astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt knows what the Artemis II crew was feeling when it rocketed into space this month for a historic lunar flyby: Pure excitement and the potential for so much more.
Apollo astronaut Schmitt cheers on new generation of moon missions | AP ...
Discover a definitive list of astronauts from NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, and more. Explore bios, mission details, and careers of global space explorers, past and present. Your ultimate resource for astronaut information.
Some brave explorers travel across oceans; others blast off into space. This list of famous astronauts celebrates the pioneers of space exploration — those who took "one giant leap" for humankind and expanded our reach beyond Earth.