Astronauts | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-26

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut


00:00:40 1 Definition
00:02:47 2 Terminology
00:03:43 2.1 English
00:05:30 2.2 Russian
00:06:55 2.3 Chinese
00:08:26 2.4 Other terms
00:09:46 3 Space travel milestones
00:13:54 3.1 Age milestones
00:14:22 3.2 Duration and distance milestones
00:15:05 3.3 Civilian and non-government milestones
00:16:49 3.4 Self-funded travelers
00:18:11 4 Training
00:20:07 4.1 NASA candidacy requirements
00:20:36 4.1.1 Commander and Pilot
00:21:35 4.1.2 Mission Specialist
00:22:12 4.1.3 Mission Specialist Educator
00:23:09 5 Health risks of space travel
00:26:41 6 Food and drink
00:27:51 7 Insignia
00:28:48 8 Deaths



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An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.Until 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. With the suborbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.