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Topic: astronaut
Definition:

  • a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
  • "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"

    Related tag cloud:

  • space
  • nasa
  • moon
  • shuttle
  • cosmonaut
  • apollo
  • space station
  • mars
  • spaceflight
  • astronomy
  • satellite
  • earth
  • jupiter rocket
  • iss
  • raumfahrt
  • planets
  • stars
  • asteroid
  • launch
  • pilot
  • gemini
    • Resources:

    Johnson Space Center
    Established in September 1961 as NASA's primary center for: design, development and testing of spacecraft and associated systems for human flight; selection and training of astronauts; planning and conducting human space flight missions; and extensive participation in the medical, engineering scientific experiments carried aboard apace flights.
    http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/

    The Astronaut Connection
    Offers popularizing material on space history, astronauts, travel in space. Includes merchandising and games.
    http://nauts.com/

    National Space Society
    Comprehensive overview with newsletters, member forum and activities of an US association to "advance the day when people will live and work in space".
    http://www.nss.org

    Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
    US association to promote Space education, created in remembrance of the Mercury 7 disaster. Site with newsletters, activities and grant info.
    http://www.astronautscholarship.org/