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

* 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.

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 + ( 2005 ) UK Edition of 1998 Japanese 19 track version

* Astronauts ( 1998 )-Japanese release, with seven extra tracks

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 ).

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

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.

* 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 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.

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.

When the third Caliph Uthman began noticing slight differences in pronunciation of the Quranic Arabic by those whose dialect was not that of the Quraish, he sought Hafsa's permission to use her text and commissioned a committee to produce a standard copy of the text of Quran to which added diacritical marks ensured correct pronunciation, and to be set as the standard dialect, the Quraish dialect, now known as Fus ' ha ( Modern Standard Arabic ) ( see Origin and development of the Quran ).

New thinkers began noticing the divide between the priests and the flock.

Tappe published the book Understanding Your Life Through Color in 1982 describing the concept, stating that during the mid 1960s she began noticing that many children were being born with " indigo " auras ( in other publications Tappe has said the color indigo came from the " life colors " of the children which she acquired through her synesthesia ).

He began with noticing the significantly higher death rates in two areas supplied by Southwark Company.

At his request, he and his chair were transported into the nearby jungle, and as he sat motionless the wild animals around him soon began to go about their business without noticing his presence.

Following the expulsion of French settlers from Rio de Janeiro in 1567 by Estácio de Sá ( the so-called France Antarctique episode ), the Portuguese crown began noticing that the bay of Rio de Janeiro would make a strategic scale for the Atlantic route of ships from Portugal to its colonies in Africa and Asia, as well an important advanced bridgehead for the defense of South Brazil.

However, as the cough became worse, Varney began noticing blood on his handkerchief and after filming was complete, he went to the doctor.

In 1962, Warren Buffett began buying stock in Berkshire Hathaway after noticing a pattern in the price direction of its stock whenever the company closed a mill.

In childhood Jacopo, a born painter, began daubing on the dyer's walls ; his father, noticing his bent, took him to the studio of Titian to see how far he could be trained as an artist.

From about 1980 on, the music industry began noticing the Neue Deutsche Welle ; however, due to the idiosyncratic nature of the music, the focus shifted to creating new bands more compatible with the mainstream, rather than promoting existing bands.

By 1800 farms began noticing that horses who grazed in the Bluegrass region were more durable than those from other regions-this is due to the high content of calcium in the soil.

Compton began designs on the speed bump after noticing the speed at which motorists passed Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a chancellor.

He began practicing again, noticing that his physical strength had significantly improved in two years.

After noticing this movement, he began trying to make a baseball move the same way, and thus created the new pitch.

In 1914, Charles G. Gunther began prospecting in the Skouriotissa area after reading in ancient books that the island was rich in copper and noticing promising ancient Roman slag heaps in the area.

Fifteen minutes after first noticing the pair, the thieves began to run from the base in fear they had been noticed ; Rainville yelled at them to " stop ", and called to Sgt.

Thirteen years after his retirement, Allison began noticing problems with his coordination during a 1987 old-timers game at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.

The members of Death Piggy began noticing that more people were coming to see Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh and leaving immediately after the set.

Consequently, many art experts began noticing that the paintings they were receiving were forgeries.

He also claims that he began to develop a class consciousness during his school days, noticing the differences between his own lifestyle and the lives of friends who lived in a nearby slum area.

He began noticing blackish rock outcroppings, and focused on mapping and researching them, becoming in the process the first explorer of the anthracite fields that have since become known as the Coal Region.

At this time, Jackson, noticing Chelsea's singing talent, became her business manager and began to vie with Phillip for her affections.