How to Use astronaut in a Sentence

astronaut

noun

• The length of the flight also bears weight on the astronauts.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The rocket will launch astronauts for the Artemis missions to the Moon.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 May 2023
• The astronaut puts water into the pack and swishes it around to mix the milk.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
• So the astronaut comes back and looks for his wife and his family.
  — Vulture, 17 July 2023
• In the 80-minute space saga, Paul and Hartnett play astronauts aboard a spaceship on a six-year mission.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• For one piece, Hodge sent Kerr an image with an astronaut in it.
  — Robert Boyd, Chron, 16 May 2023
• Lastly, astronauts lost for eight months and then found a tomato in space.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2023
• There was a fire on the launchpad during the test that resulted in the deaths of all three astronauts inside.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• The astronauts’ paths to space couldn’t be more different.
  — Marcia Dunn, al, 26 Aug. 2023
• First will be a lunar fly-around with four astronauts, possibly before the end of the year.
  — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
• With scientists leading the way, astronauts scrambled around the crater floor, slopes and rim.
  — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• For the United States, American astronauts have not set foot on the moon since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• Matt Damon plays astronaut Mark Watney in the movie, who gets stranded on the planet.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 8 Aug. 2023
• In May, China launched a three-person crew for its orbiting space station and hopes to put astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade.
  — Ashok Sharma, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• Our hope is that, this time, two decades will have been enough time to ensure the astronauts onboard return home safely.
  — Matthew Beddingfield, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• There’s even a possibility that astronauts could go to the site one day.
  — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• In May, China sent three more astronauts into space and made clear its ambitions to send a team to the moon before 2030.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Thanks to the use of helmets, astronauts don't have to really deal with many of the more pungent aromas hanging around the universe.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
• Ice on the moon’s South Pole is expected to be used to make rocket fuel and allow astronauts to drink.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• In 2017, astronauts on a spacewalk outside the ISS lost a bag containing a five-foot-long debris shield.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2023
• The Evening Tribune chose at random a number of citizens whose last names matched those of the astronauts or are linked to space or the Apollo 11 mission.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• After docking, the Chinese astronauts on board the spacecraft will enter the lander, which is used to descend to the moon’s surface.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 13 July 2023
• In the film, Sandler plays Jakub Prochazka, an astronaut on a solo mission to Jupiter.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• It was grown in March by American astronaut Frank Rubio, who holds the record for longest spaceflight at 370 days.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
• The larvae could eat astronauts’ food waste and produce frass to fertilize bad alien soil, which could then produce food plants.
  — Sarah Scoles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Many children, like the child Shoffner was, dream of becoming an astronaut.
  — Katie Dupere, Men's Health, 26 May 2023
• The astronauts talk of the weight of being an example and the challenges of having to navigate both white and Black spaces in order to succeed.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 June 2023
• First Stockton Rush wanted to be an astronaut, but couldn’t, because of poor eyesight.
  — Abigail Geiger, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023
• Father and son were master builders of paper airplanes, testing them at a park now named after the astronaut.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Sometimes the bladder fills but doesn’t empty, and astronauts need to catheterize themselves.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024