Astronaut In Space

Nasa astronaut kate rubins has reached the international space station after the soyuz spacecraft carrying her and russian cosmonauts sergey ryzhikov and sergey kud sverchkov completed a fast.

Astronaut in space. 7 1984 during the space shuttle challenger s sts 41b mission nasa astronaut bruce mccandless ii makes the first untethered free flight spacewalk. Astronaut designation derived from the greek words for star and sailor commonly applied to an individual who has flown in outer space. They have to keep their area clean in space just like we do on earth. The commercial astronaut.

They use a soap that kills germs. You won t believe what astronauts do every single day the everyday life of astronauts in a space station is no different from ours on earth. Members of the space program of russia or the soviet union are referred to as cosmonauts. More specifically astronaut refers to those from the united states canada europe and japan who travel into space.

Until recently astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments either by the military or by civilian space agencies. Nasa astronaut kate rubins and russian cosmonauts sergey ryzhikov and sergey kud sverchkov launched for a six month stay on the space station from the baikonur cosmodrome in southern kazakhstan. In space the astronauts wipe the walls floors and windows to keep them clean. An astronaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command pilot or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

However with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded spaceshipone in 2004 a new category of astronaut was created. The term astronaut derives from the greek words meaning space sailor and refers to all who have been launched as crew members aboard nasa spacecraft bound for orbit and beyond. In space astronauts live in a very small space.