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After collaborating with iconic NASA aeronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on these zero-gravity exercises, Troy Morris says, his lab is set to team up with a new corps of ISS sojourners.
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Not all jumps were entirely successful, as seen on Aug. 24, 1896, when an aeronaut nearly died by drowning.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024
Soon, the exploits of new aeronauts would upstage him, among them Alberto Santos-Dumont’s circumnavigation of the Eiffel Tower in 1901.
—Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
On the way down, the aeronaut, having toasted to freedom, dropped leaflets of the new constitution.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
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Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Not all jumps were entirely successful, as seen on Aug. 24, 1896, when an aeronaut nearly died by drowning.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024
Soon, the exploits of new aeronauts would upstage him, among them Alberto Santos-Dumont’s circumnavigation of the Eiffel Tower in 1901.
—Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
On the way down, the aeronaut, having toasted to freedom, dropped leaflets of the new constitution.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
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“Aeronaut.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aeronaut. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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aeronaut
noun
aero·naut
ˈar-ə-ˌnȯt 
ˈer-,
-nät
: a person who operates or travels in an airship or a balloon
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