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.

Astronauts are also affected by this region which is said to be the cause of peculiar ' shooting stars ' ( phosphenes ) seen in the visual field of astronauts.

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

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.

Astronauts also train with the flight controllers in the Mission Control Center.

Chapman's NASA years are also described in Australia's Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream, 1999, by Colin Burgess.

Astronauts also performed the standard checks of the protein crystal growth and rodent experiments housed in Columbia's middeck.

He has said that among his most treasured achievements at NASA were his contributions to the Apollo program Lunar Landing in 1969, which fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's mandate of 1961 ; helping to rescue America's experimental space station Skylab after its near-disastrous launch into orbit on May 14, 1973, making it habitable and eminently successful for three sets of U. S. Astronauts later that year ; and also " rescuing " the backup Skylab version from being discarded so it could be publicly displayed in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, instead of being sold for scrap.

United States Astronauts are also provided a firearm for similar use.

The Space Mirror Memorial, also known as the Astronaut Memorial, is maintained by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation and is located behind the IMAX theater on the grounds of the main Visitor Complex.

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 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 track Astronauts from the 2004 album Particles and Waves has been used as music for the American Express commercial with actress Kate Winslet.

Astronauts did not learn how to work during EVA without tiring until the final Gemini 12 mission, but no AMU was carried on that flight.

Astronauts Thomas D. Akers and Kathryn C. Thornton replaced HST's solar arrays during the second planned EVA ( Thornton had red dashed stripes on her spacesuit while Tom Akers had diagonal red dashed stripes, which helped flight controllers tell the two spacewalkers apart.

They work in design offices ( foreign and domestic ), plants, repair shops, scientific research institutes, universities, laboratories, aviation companies, in the center for Astronauts Training and other aircraft and aerospace engineering and technological institutions.

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.

* Astronauts and Area 51: the Skylab Incident

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.

In the United States he is best known for his work on The X-Files ( for Topps ), Astronauts in Trouble ( for AiT / Planet Lar ) and The Walking Dead ( for Image Comics ).

* 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 ).

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.

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

Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole.

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.

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.

* 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.

* 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.

Accounts of Belyayev's life and space career appear in the 2003 book " Fallen Astronauts " and the 2007 book Into That Silent Sea, both by Colin Burgess.

An account of Volkov's life and space career appears in the 2003 book " Fallen Astronauts " by Colin Burgess.

An account of Patsayev's life and space career appears in the 2003 book " Fallen Astronauts " by Colin Burgess.

Astronauts are collecting blood and urine samples to help researchers determine the chemical regulatory changes the human body undergoes while in space.

His themes, particularly in the novels Beyond Apollo ( 1972 ) and The Falling Astronauts ( 1971 ) about the US space exploration programme, include the dehumanisation effects of bureaucracy and technology ; his treatment of these themes sometimes exhibits strong resemblances to Kafka, accompanied by Unreliable narrator techniques.

Astronauts exposed to radiation in space report seeing phosphenes.

Astronauts can control the robot from both inside and outside the space station.

Astronauts may be awarded the decoration after two to three space flights.

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.

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

Astronauts lose an average of more than 1 % bone mass per month spent in space.