astronaut
noun
a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.
astronauts
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pluralof astronaut.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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About two weeks before the flight, the Crew-13 astronauts will begin quarantine at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
JimmyTrotter lifted up his hands and asked everyone to be quiet so we could hear Walter Cronkite and the astronauts.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
