How to Use astronaut in a Sentence

astronaut

noun
  • Who will be first to land astronauts on the moon?
    — Space.com Staff, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • But in this case, the astronauts were able to do that.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 11 May 2026
  • Could new astronauts go to the moon?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But at least the astronauts would be fine, right?
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • When will astronauts land on the moon?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • No crack is smoked; an astronaut’s life has enough highs.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Here the astronauts paid with their lives.
    — Andrew Binns, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And what kind of message does that send about who can be an astronaut?
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The length of the flight also bears weight on the astronauts.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The astronauts won’t orbit the moon or land on it.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Now, the astronauts will have to wait at least a month for their moonshot.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And soon, so will the astronauts heading to the moon.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
  • Last month, for the first time in more than fifty years, four astronauts flew to the moon and back.
    — David W. Brown, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • This time around, no astronauts will fly aboard the spacecraft.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • So how do astronauts drink water in space?
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
  • And hey, astronauts do it — so why shouldn’t the rest of us get access as well?
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Guests dressed up as space cowboys, astronauts, and aliens.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Earth is sort of like an astronaut with a spinning wheel.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
  • So the astronaut comes back and looks for his wife and his family.
    — Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • Will astronauts be landing on the moon?
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Will astronauts be landing on the moon?
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And a lot of those astronauts come back with low bone density.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The next astronauts to travel around the moon seem plenty fit to make the trip.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Lastly, astronauts lost for eight months and then found a tomato in space.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Body fluids shift toward the head, which gives astronauts a puffy face.
    — Rachael Seidler, Space.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Body fluids shift toward the head, which gives astronauts a puffy face.
    — Rachael Seidler, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The astronaut says the Earth means freedom for them both, but what does that mean?
    — Brittany Vincent, BGR, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The astronauts then spent three days journeying to the moon.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Now, with much of those complete, the astronauts are telling their story to the world.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 1 May 2026
  • The event honored female astronauts — past and present — for the first time.
    — Catherine Santino, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025

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