6' 3½" (193 cm)
The first astronaut of Indian origin was Kalpana Chawla whose first mission with NASA was in 1997. The first India person in space, though, was Rakesh Sharma who on a Soviet mission in 1984.
Alan Shepard was the first US astronaut and the second person in space.
About any sentence that you can make like: " the astronaut works for Nasa." Notice the "the" at the start? That is the mostly used word for "astronaut".
The shuttles have the capacity to carry 8 astronauts, but usually only 7 are on each mission. Sometimes the extra seat will be taken by the astronaut being returned to earth from the International Space Station.
The female astronaut who was killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003 was named Kalpana Chawla. She was a mission specialist on the STS-107 mission.
Space-based exploration and study is the primary role of an astronaut. A space traveler who is not primarily an astronaut is called a mission specialist.
The first astronaut of Indian origin was Kalpana Chawla whose first mission with NASA was in 1997. The first India person in space, though, was Rakesh Sharma who on a Soviet mission in 1984.
Alan Shepard was the first US astronaut and the second person in space.
About any sentence that you can make like: " the astronaut works for Nasa." Notice the "the" at the start? That is the mostly used word for "astronaut".
The shuttles have the capacity to carry 8 astronauts, but usually only 7 are on each mission. Sometimes the extra seat will be taken by the astronaut being returned to earth from the International Space Station.
The female astronaut who was killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003 was named Kalpana Chawla. She was a mission specialist on the STS-107 mission.
Guion Bluford became the first African American astronaut to travel to space on August 30, 1983, as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
an astronaut would simply take rations for the number of days he would go to space
The first astronaut of Indian origin was Kalpana Chawla whose first mission with NASA was in 1997. The first India person in space, though, was Rakesh Sharma who on a Soviet mission in 1984. But Russian space travellers are cosmonauts, not astronauts.
Astronaut Robert Curbeam, a native of Turner Station, completed his second mission in space in January 2001. He served as a mission specialist on Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-98 mission to the International Space Station.
This depends upon where the astronaut is. Inside the International Space Station, astronauts usually wear light, informal clothing. If the astronaut exits the station to do a space walk or other such mission, the astronaut will wear an air tight space suit, in order to be able to continue breathing.
The last US astronaut to go to space alone was John Young. He flew a solo mission aboard the Gemini 10 spacecraft on July 18, 1966.