How to Use astronaut in a Sentence

astronaut

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  • There was a sublimely silly video in which Mulaney plays a ground control officer trying to help a chimp astronaut return to Earth early in the show.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The length of the flight also bears weight on the astronauts.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The rocket will launch astronauts for the Artemis missions to the Moon.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
  • There is no rush to fly the astronauts home, NASA said.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • The astronaut puts water into the pack and swishes it around to mix the milk.
    — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • So the astronaut comes back and looks for his wife and his family.
    — Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • On May 8, over 24 hours after launch, the two astronauts will arrive at the ISS.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
  • SpaceX hopes its new suits can be used one day by astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 12 Sep. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time a U.S. astronaut has had their stay extended.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024
  • About 20 years later, Sally Ride was the first woman in space — and the first gay astronaut.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In the 80-minute space saga, Paul and Hartnett play astronauts aboard a spaceship on a six-year mission.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
  • For one piece, Hodge sent Kerr an image with an astronaut in it.
    — Robert Boyd, Chron, 16 May 2023
  • Like Space Toad, the plucky bat likely perished in its attempt to be the very first bat astronaut.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The Starship is designed to take astronauts and cargo to the Red Planet, the Moon, and beyond.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Lastly, astronauts lost for eight months and then found a tomato in space.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2023
  • There was a fire on the launchpad during the test that resulted in the deaths of all three astronauts inside.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The astronauts’ paths to space couldn’t be more different.
    — Marcia Dunn, al, 26 Aug. 2023
  • First will be a lunar fly-around with four astronauts, possibly before the end of the year.
    — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The massive Starship rocket is the one that Elon Musk's space company plans to use to send astronauts to the moon and, at some point, to Mars.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 18 Apr. 2023
  • With scientists leading the way, astronauts scrambled around the crater floor, slopes and rim.
    — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • For the United States, American astronauts have not set foot on the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Matt Damon plays astronaut Mark Watney in the movie, who gets stranded on the planet.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The energy dense, lightweight cells could extend the time astronauts can spend on space walks from four to eight hours.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 12 Sep. 2024
  • For the United States, American astronauts have not set foot on the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
  • In May, China launched a three-person crew for its orbiting space station and hopes to put astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade.
    — Ashok Sharma, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And for any wanna-be astronaut, the Space Center Houston will wow.
    — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Our hope is that, this time, two decades will have been enough time to ensure the astronauts onboard return home safely.
    — Matthew Beddingfield, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
  • There’s even a possibility that astronauts could go to the site one day.
    — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In May, China sent three more astronauts into space and made clear its ambitions to send a team to the moon before 2030.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • An additional medical evaluation of the astronauts was requested out of an abundance of caution, NASA said.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2024

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