astronauts

Astronauts are individuals trained by space agencies to travel into space and conduct missions, such as operating spacecraft, conducting scientific experiments, and performing spacewalks.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news due to ongoing research on the effects of spaceflight on human health, recent spacewalks, and historical mission anniversaries.

Latest on astronauts

• Exercise — and echocardiograms — in space protected astronauts’ hearts in study
• On this day in space! Sept. 14, 1966: NASA's Gemini 11 astronauts set altitude record for Earth orbit that went unbroken for 58 years
• Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists
• Labor Day in space: NASA astronauts get the holiday off
• Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)
• Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today
• A pen-sized apparatus called a "laundry gun" could sterilize astronauts' clothes in space.
• NASA is using its Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory to develop the training programs it will use to prepare its astronauts to explore the lunar surface
• A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting voter rights could extend to astronauts living and working in space and training internationally.

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