She will be the first Japanese woman astronaut.

The man whom she is going to marry is an astronaut.

During his short mission to the ISS, European astronaut Andre Kuipers carried out an intensive programme of experiments.

To complete the group, M. Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut in space, was selected for a second space shuttle mission.

In addition, a Malaysian astronaut would soon be launched into space under a joint programme with the Russian Federation focusing on science and education.

And I'm not going to argue with you. You're an astronaut, a hero, and I'm from New Jersey, so I'm just going to show you some footage.

We had a NASA consultant who was actually an astronaut, who was actually on some of the missions, of Apollo 15, and he was there to basically double check my science.

So we were, he's a hero, he's an astronaut, and we're all sort of excited, and, you know, I gave myself the liberty of saying, you know, some of the shots I did didn't really suck that bad.

Canadian astronaut C. Hadfield took part in the Shuttle Mission STS 74 that docked with the MIR station of the Russian Federation, and operated the Canadarm system used to put into place the docking adaptor that will allow repeated shuttle missions to MIR.

I heard astronaut Joe Allen explain how he had to learn everything he could about his life support system and then do everything he could to take care of his life support system and then he pointed to this and he said, Life support system.

I wanted to be an astronaut, so I've constantly followed what are the tools available to monitor Earth from outer space and that we have incredible tools like we've been learning about, in terms of being able to follow tagged species throughout their life cycles in the open ocean.

And so for me, it was really exciting just to see what it looks like if you could step outside and into a larger context, as though you were an astronaut, and see these two things as an object, because they are so intimately bound, and one is meaningless without the other.

The spaceship transported a crew consisting of United States astronaut Leroy Chiao and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and also cosmonaut Yuri Shargin, who went for a 10 day orbital mission and then returned on 24 October together with the crew of the ninth main mission who had worked on the Station for six months.

Some months ago, an American astronaut accidentally let a tool escape into orbit, eliciting concern about its hazardous potential as a hurtling object that could destroy an expensive satellite or even threaten lives aloft. Shortly afterwards, China blew up one of its satellites, immediately doubling the type of fine orbiting debris that is dangerous because it is hard to track.

The Committee also noted that in 2004 a conference on the ethical and legal framework for astronaut activities on the International Space Station had been held in Paris and that a conference on the legal and ethical framework for the exploration of the solar system, organized jointly by UNESCO and the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), was planned for 2006.

The crew of that mission, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and astronaut Edward Michael Fincke of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, took over from the crew of the eighth main mission, Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foel, who during their six months on board the ISS had carried out numerous scientific experiments, more than 40 of them part of the Russian programme.

Taking into account the rules that already exist (the OST, Astronaut Agreement, Liability Convention, Registration Convention, ITU), their gaps and introducing key provisions (no simulated attacks, no dangerous manoeuvres, no harmful use of lasers, mitigation of space debris, space weapon restrictions), it should be possible to devise a code of conduct that prevents the misuse of space assets and grants space security for all through surveillance and monitoring.

Rusty Schweickart, who was an Apollo 9 astronaut, is on this. Dan Durda, my friend who made this image, works here at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, on Walnut Street. He created this image for this, and he's actually one of the astronomers who works for them. If we see an asteroid that's going to hit the Earth and we have enough time, we can hit it to move it into a better orbit. But then what we do is we launch a probe that has to weigh a ton or two.