commander
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Jeremy Hansen became the first Canadian to carry out such a mission, while Reid Wiseman was the commander.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
"You've got the controls," said Reid Wiseman, the commander of that lunar mission.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Its crew of four - commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen - became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
But Ike was never the sort of man-on-horseback-style commander that Churchill idolized in the manner of the First Duke of Marlborough, Napoleon Bonaparte or the Duke of Wellington.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Marina chose Yevdokia Bershanskaya to be the commander of the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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