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Astronauts

Individuals trained for space flight
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By the time the author visited the space station in 2001, the view through the window of a docked shuttle (here, Discovery) had become part of life in orbit.

Shuttle Stop

The tensest moment in spaceflight: Docking with a 100-ton space station while orbiting Earth at five miles per second.
May 2006 | By Thomas D. Jones

Waiting inside the Gemini 3 capsule on March 23, 1965, John Young was about to embark on the first of six voyages into space—seven if you count Apollo 16

Spaceman

Sometimes an entire era is represented by a single career.
September 2005 | By Geoffrey Little

The Soyuz lifts off on October 14, 2004, bound for the space station.

Leroy's Launch

To watch a friend begin his expedition to the International Space Station, our correspondent travels to emptiest Kazakhstan.
July 2005 | By George C. Larson

Voskhod 2 was Leonov

The Nightmare of Voskhod 2

A cosmonaut remembers the exhilaration-and terror-of his first space mission.
January 2005 | By Alexei Leonov

What looks like steam coming from the VX-10 test chamber is actually venting of the liquid nitrogen used to cool the giant magnets that confine the plasma. Gas is injected through a tube on the right side and comes out as exhaust at left, beyond the frame of the picture. Windows and diagnostic probes are used to monitor the behavior of the plasm

Star Power

The plasma rocket, says U.S. astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz, is the propulsion technology of the future.
March 2004 | By Beth Dickey

Growing Pains

It's the one area of space science in which you get to eat the experiment.
September 2003 | By Robert Zimmerman

Roberto Vittori trains in a water tank in Moscow. The Russians flew the first German and French astronauts in the 1970s and 1980s, and still occasionally offer rides to ESA fliers—for a price.

Astronaut, Cosmonaut... Euronaut?

Space exploration may come naturally to Europeans, but it doesn't come easily.
September 2003 | By William Triplett

Is It Worth the Risk?

The astronaut who commanded the first shuttle flight after Challenger explains his decision.
July 2003 | By Richard Hauck

The Goodbye Guys

Seeing off the astronauts is one of NASA's most prestigious jobs, and one of the most demanding.
July 2002 | By Beth Dickey

Further into the shuttle flight, Thomas Jones and Tammy Jernigan could almost laugh about their predicament.

Above & Beyond: No Way Out

July 2002 | By Thomas D. Jones

Space Shuttle Diaries

Exhilaration, fear, surprise, and fun: spaceflight, according to the astronauts.
May 2002 | By The Editors of Air&Space Magazine

Commentary: Astronauts to Asteroids

We've done the moon. Mars is too far. There's a better destination in our own back yard.
May 2002 | By Thomas D. Jones

Commentary: A More Perfect Astronaut

With new techniques in genetic experimentation, can biologists make hardier space dwellers?
July 2001 | By Kenneth S. Kosik

How to Get Along in Space

NASA has started a new training program to help space station residents fight off cabin fever.
January 2001 | By Beth Dickey

David G. Simons prior to the second Manhigh flight in August 1957.

First Up?

Even before NASA was created, civilian and military labs were in search of spacemen.
September 2000 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Road Show

Thirty years ago, astronauts were an exotic species. Wherever they appeared, crowds went wild.
January 1996 | By Brian Duff


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