astronaut

Becoming a content creator has officially elbowed out old standbys like doctor and astronaut as the job that Gen Z and Gen Alpha most aspire to have.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Sophie Adenot is set to become the first French female astronaut to venture outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk on Tuesday, accompanied by American astronaut Anil Menon.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Bosco Ortega, 12, wants to be an astronaut when he grows up but has until now lived in Cairo, where the light pollution means few stars can be seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Winocour has often made films about women balancing their public-facing life with their private selves In 2019’s “Proxima,” Eva Green played an astronaut missing her young daughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

I prayed for the souls and families of physicist Dr. Ronald McNair, the second African American astronaut to go to space, and Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher to become an astronaut.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Trump signed the order Friday at an event dedicated to the astronauts who flew around the moon and back earlier this year on NASA’s Artemis II mission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

As the agency pivots to putting astronauts on the moon, this $3-billion space-copter is the agency’s last large-scale mission to explore the solar system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The United States is competing with China in the race to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030, more than 50 years after humans first walked the lunar surface.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Nasa astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir ventured outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk on Thursday to install mounting hardware.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

The astronauts float around inside the space shuttle’s cramped quarters, where there is no gravity.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick