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astronaut

[ UK /ˈæstɹənˌɔːt/ ]
[ US /ˈæstɹəˌnɑt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
    the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts

How To Use astronaut In A Sentence

  • the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether
  • On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
  • Since most of the shuttle system was designed to be reusable, it was supposed to take the astronomical costs out of astronautics.
  • The new system "can cover the civilian and military sides," said Xu Shijie, a professor of astronautics at Beihang University in Beijing. Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation
  • An equipment failure of accident on the moon could have left the astronauts stranded.
  • Inside a spacecraft in orbit round the Earth an astronaut could float weightless, hardly in contact with the floor.
  • Morphing "spacesuit" can adjust on astronaut's body to ensure perfect fit The 4-mm long 'peacock spider' and its mating ritual to attract a mate Walking while talking on cell phone risky for older people: Study LONDON - India has urged Western countries to stop eating beef in order to cut greenhouse emissions. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • We salute his many accomplishments as an astronaut and as a husband and father.
  • But a tiny new system designed to monitor astronauts' health promises to take less of your blood than a mosquito bite. Times, Sunday Times
  • Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
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