Astronauts Day is an American holiday, dedicated to NASA astronauts and their achievements. It is a "floating" holiday, observed on the last Friday of...

Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three...

literally "heaven-sailing staff"). Since 1961, 600 astronauts have flown in space. Until 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments...

selection of the "Mercury Seven" as its first astronauts. Since then, NASA has selected 22 more groups of astronauts, opening the corps to civilians, scientists...

on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. International Day of Human Space Flight Astronauts Day Cosmonautics Day Yuri's Night Wall, Mike (May...

group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1. Their...

honors American astronauts and features the world's largest collection of their personal memorabilia, focusing on those astronauts who have been inducted...

brought to Earth by ancient astronauts were interpreted as evidence of divine status by early humans. The idea that ancient astronauts existed and visited Earth...

incident, the astronauts were called before a closed session of a Senate committee and never flew in space again. The three astronauts and an acquaintance...

2011 Jubilee stamp, Ukraine, 2011 Astronauts Day Yuri's Night Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cosmonautics Day. Государственная Дума. Федеральный...

astronauts later flew unused Apollo command modules in the Apollo Applications Program's Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. Of the 24 astronauts who...

jet aircraft. Compared with the first two groups of astronauts, the third group of fourteen astronauts, which included Collins, was younger, with an average...

particularly those of NASA. The Astronauts Memorial has been designated by the U.S. Congress "as the national memorial to astronauts who die in the line of duty"...

for the professional 220-size film used by the astronauts' Hasselblad, making R&R a convenient same-day trip for NASA's critical need.[citation needed]...

which train and/or hire their own professional astronauts. More than 500 people have trained as astronauts. A list of everyone who has flown in space can...

the astronauts. The most well known include Earthrise, taken by William Anders on Apollo 8, and The Blue Marble, taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts. The...

of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence. The astronauts had the Earth's South Pole facing upwards and the Sun above them (in spatial...

The Astronauts were an American rock band, who had a minor hit in 1963 with "Baja" and remained successful for several years, especially in Japan. They...

NASA's Astronauts of '62". AmericaSpace. Archived from the original on May 16, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019. "Here are the Next Nine Astronauts Who Will...

of a more vintage brand, will adorn a SpaceX rocket that is to carry astronauts to the space station in May". The New York Times. Archived from the original...

Curse of the Black Spot", Mark Sheppard as Canton in "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon", and Daniel Mays as Alex in "Night Terrors". Other guest...

of 32 Apollo astronauts who were sent to Iceland for training in geology for crewed lunar missions. Fourteen of the trainee astronauts later flew to...

spaceflight. Astronauts Day National Astronaut Day Asteroid Day Astronomy Day World Space Week "UN Resolution A/RES/65/271, The International Day of Human...

original astronauts selected for Mercury but rather to the fact that Shepard's spacecraft was factory model no. 7. However, the other astronauts liked the...

The Astronaut's Wife is a 1999 American science fiction thriller film directed and written by Rand Ravich, in his feature directorial debut. It stars...

with HLS. Two astronauts will transfer to HLS, which will descend to the lunar surface and spend about 6.5 days on the surface. The astronauts will perform...

Mercury Seven astronauts due to a temporarily high bilirubin count. He was accepted in September 1962 as one of the second group of astronauts needed for...

113th U.S. Congress Astronauts and Cosmonauts (sorted by "Time in Space"). Spacefacts.de. Retrieved on October 9, 2012. "Astronaut Jose Hernandez Leaves...

than an event—in the sixth series' two-part premiere "The Impossible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon"; one Silent observes the death of a future Doctor (Matt...

on the rocket (insulation and a battery). Each day had two instantaneous launch opportunities. On the day of launch, the launch was delayed to the second...