NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong at Tranquility Base on Luna in 1969.
An astronaut (or cosmonaut) is a person specially trained to serve aboard a spacecraft. The term was generally used in the 20th and 21st centuries, at a time when space flight was rare and particularly risky.
History and specifics[]
Space shuttle astronauts.
Nyota Uhura used the word "astronauts" to refer to the crew of the USS Enterprise in one of her songs. (TOS episode: "Charlie X")
Anne Gauvreau referred to the Talin who embarked on a mission to their planet's moon circa the 2270s as astronauts, though Pavel Chekov insisted "cosmonaut" was the correct term. (TOS novel: Prime Directive)
After some convincing, Zefram Cochrane finally came to accept that the crew of the USS Enterprise-E were astronauts, of a sort. (TNG movie & novelization: Star Trek: First Contact)
Benjamin Sisko had read about astronauts who used one of their thumbs to obscure the Earth from their view. (DS9 novel: Hollow Men)
Julian Bashir had seen images of Russian cosmonauts who had to be carried out of their craft by stretcher after returning to Earth. (DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: Cathedral)
Astronauts[]
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- Buzz Aldrin
- Neil Armstrong
- Alan Bean
- Frank Borman
- Scott Carpenter
- Gene Cernan
- Cernan
- Roger B. Chaffee
- Chekov (instructor)
- Shaun Geoffrey Christopher
- Zefram Cochrane
- Michael Collins
- Charles "Pete" Conrad
- Gordon Cooper
- Steve Cory
- Charles Duke
- Joe Engle
- Ronald Evans
- Evans (NASA)
- Alice Fontana
- Tera Franklin
- C. Gordon Fullerton
- Yuri Gagarin
- John Glenn
- Richard Gordon
- Gus Grissom
- Fred Haise
- James Irwin
- Gregory Jarvis
- J'Karl
- Alexey Leonov
- James Lovell
- Shirin Ludden
- Ken Mattingly
- Christa McAuliffe
- James McDivitt
- Ronald McNair
- Edgar Mitchell
- Verna Mitrios
- Marcus O'Herlihy
- Ellison Onizuka
- Orr ni'Li
- Judith Resnik
- Stephen Richey
- Stuart Roosa
- Wally Schirra
- Schmitt
- Harrison Schmitt
- Rusty Schweickart
- Dick Scobee
- David Scott
- Seerl ti'La
- Alan Shepard
- Deke Slayton
- Michael Smith
- Sprang
- Thomas Stafford
- John Swigert
- George Taylor
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Ed White
- Alfred Worden
- John Young
Appendices[]
External links[]
- Astronaut article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Astronaut article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.