John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

An astronaut who does work outside the space shuttle usually is wearing more than seventeen pieces of protective equipment.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

So an astronaut on the flight of Gemini Four, Ed White,took that first frightening step into the unknown.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

NASA said its astronaut candidates had to be between twenty-five and forty years old and in excellent health.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

So as Atlantis landed for the final time, Astronaut Chris Ferguson simply said "Mission complete, Houston."

VOA: special.2011.07.27

But before NASA could send an astronaut into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person to travel in space.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

People could hear on radio and television the talk between the astronaut and the flight controllers.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Much work had to be done before Project Mercury could put an American astronaut into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

When Sandy leaves her house, she wears an astronaut's suit so she can breathe underwater.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

China put an astronaut into space in two thousand three, and it plans to send a robotic explorer to the moon two years from now.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Space officials announced that astronaut Alan Shepard would become the first American in space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The former astronaut says he would like to go back to the moon to see how the American flag he and Neal Armstrong planted there is doing.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

It was used in nineteen sixty-one during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Now,everything was ready for an astronaut to make an orbital flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The last one,by astronaut Gordon Cooper, circled the Earth twenty-one times.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

NASA announced that the astronaut would be John Glenn.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Astronaut Gus Grissom repeated Shepard's successful short flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Then the controllers heard the astronaut again.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

If selected, applicants become "astronaut candidates."

VOA: special.2010.08.20

He tells these teenagers the key to being an astronaut is having a solid background in math and science.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

US astronaut Neil Armstrong made the historic first step on the Moon from Apollo 11's landing craft called the Eagle.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Melvin has been an astronaut for 10 years. He says he's trying to be a role model to young African-Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Astronaut Tim Kopra will travel to the station to replace Koichi Wakata, who will return to Earth aboard the shuttle.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Discovery is delivering a new astronaut sleeping quarters, an ammonia tank and a gyroscope for the space station.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"I had family members, I had people in my community, that told me, 'You can't be an astronaut."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is traveling aboard Discovery and will live aboard the station for several months.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15