Astronaut in a sentence as a noun

When I have some spare money I will tell the internet that i'm an astronaut just to prove a point.

Mary Roach had a bit in her book Packing for Mars about the huge impact fresh food has on astronaut morale.

The structural mass of the seat the astronaut sits in isn't insignificant, either.

During the cold war it was cool to be an astronaut, now it is being the CEO of the next mobile social local photo sharing startup.

Encouraging kids to try to become astronauts is not an ignorant statement despite the fact that becoming an astronaut is really hard.

> it turns into typical "architecture astronaut" naval gazingI take exception to your critique of your Mr Victor's presentation.

When I was in high school, going to a high school that was named after an astronaut just after the first moon landing, I thought it was completely natural to have the ambition to be the first man to set foot on Mars.

I'm not a habitual watcher of his show but it seems to me like he's pretty good about knowing when to turn it off, or just turn it down a bit. One interview on his show where I remember him being very close to completely straight was with an astronaut who had walked on the moon, which I feel indicates that his priorities are about right.

Ultimately it turns into typical "architecture astronaut" naval gazing.

Plating astronaut helmets and high-conductivity, corrosion-resistant electronics?The intrinsic utility of gold was that it was eminently verifable.

I still admire astronauts, and I've exposed all four of my children to books and films about space exploration, but I'd be even more thrilled to see them or other young people I know take on the exploration challenge of bringing about improvement in the lives of their fellow human beings in the worst-off parts of planet Earth.

This comment reminded me of the "architecture astronaut" post by Joel Spolsky[1]:"Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music" and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it's interesting because it's peer to peer, completely missing the point that it's interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

Astronaut definitions

noun

a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"

See also: spaceman cosmonaut