He also starred in the movies The Sugar Factory ( 1998 ), Occasional Coarse Language ( 1998 ), My Mother Frank ( 2000 ), Punishment and The Land of the Astronauts ( 2010 ).

Astronauts Leroy Chiao ( left ) and William McArthur, who earlier shared space walk time to work on the exterior of the International Space Station ( ISS ), are pictured here in the shirt-sleeve environment of the functional cargo block ( FGB ) on the station.

Astronauts William Fletcher and Peter Craig – each of whom happens to be the chief thorn in the other's side – set down in a canyon on another planet to repair their ship.

* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.

Astronauts also used EVA in 1973 to repair launch damage to Skylab, the United States ' first space station.

Astronauts on the next three Gemini flights ( Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins and Richard Gordon ), performed several EVAs, but none was able to successfully work for long periods outside the spacecraft without tiring and overheating.

* 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit ( MMU ).

* 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.

* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.

* 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

File: Mercury Astronauts in Weightless Flight on C-131 Aircraft-GPN-2002-000039. jpg | Weightlessness simulation in plane

Astronauts Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space, and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik I passing overhead inspired them to their new careers.

Astronauts were uninterested in watching movies on a proposed entertainment center or playing games, but did want books and individual music choices.

Astronauts performed ten spacewalks, totaling 42 hours and 16 minutes.

Astronauts also found that bending over in weightlessness to put on socks or tie shoelaces strained their stomach muscles.

Astronauts usually stood to eat, as sitting in microgravity also strained their stomach muscles.

* February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.

A family-approved account of Grissom's life appears in the 2003 book Fallen Astronauts by Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan.

; " The Rocket Man ": Astronauts of this story are few in number, so work as they desire for high pay.

On yet another episode, Conan gave Hanks a painting he had commissioned reflecting two of his interests: Astronauts landing on the beach at Normandy.

* A family-approved account of See's life and career appears in the 2003 book Fallen Astronauts by space historians Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan.

His short story " Light of Other Days " was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel The Ragged Astronauts in 1987.

Later in his career he wrote the Land trilogy ( The Ragged Astronauts, The Wooden Spaceships and The Fugitive Worlds ), set on a system of worlds where technology has evolved with no metals.

Astronauts on the International Space Station | ISS in weightless conditions.

Astronauts Conrad and Bean examined the spacecraft, and they brought back about 10 kg of parts of the Surveyor to the Earth, including its TV camera, which is now on permanent display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C.

Astronauts Gerald Carr and Joe Engle, selected later, also commanded their first space flights.

80's synth-pop musician Thomas Dolby speaks of Opelousas in the first person within his song, " I Love You Goodbye " from his Astronauts and heretics album of 1992.

Garneau was one of the first Canadian Astronauts and he became the first Canadian in outer space in October 1984.

* Deke Slayton-Donald Kent " Deke " Slayton ; selected as one of the first Mercury Seven Astronauts.

Many NASA Astronauts with aviator backgrounds are referred to during spaceflights by their call signs rather than their first names.

Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward H. White, II circled the Earth 66 times in four days, making it the first US flight to approach the five-day flight of the Soviet Vostok 5.

Astronauts Charles " Pete " Conrad, Jr. and Richard F. Gordon, Jr. performed the first-ever direct-ascent ( first orbit ) rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a world record high-apogee earth orbit, and created a small amount of artificial gravity by spinning the two spacecraft connected by a tether.

The result was a 90 minute documentary narrated by Bill Nye titled ' Astronauts ' which first aired on PBS on 17 July 1997 and was later released on VHS home video.

In the United States and Germany Air Mail delivery was greeted with the same national enthusiasm and fanfare as was experienced with the first trips to the moon by US Astronauts.

* February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.

The band put together $ 10, 000 and self-financed their first album titled Welcoming Home the Astronauts.

Astronauts were the first to observe the eruption, and alerted the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

British rock band Kula Shaker's first track on their 1999 album Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts is titled " Great Hosannah ".

Astronauts began noticing the first, easternmost lake growing in November 1998.

Astronauts returning from space missions also commented on how fragile the Earth looked from space, further fueling calls for better stewardship of the only home humans have — for now.

* In Stanisław Lem's book Astronauci ( The Astronauts ) ( 1951 ) it is a post-apocalyptic dead world ( see film section for details ).