{"id":23455,"date":"2020-03-03T19:50:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/todays-word-of-the-day-selected-by-nasa-astronaut\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T19:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:50:53","slug":"todays-word-of-the-day-selected-by-nasa-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/todays-word-of-the-day-selected-by-nasa-astronaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Word of the Day selected by NASA: astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLocation: Teague Auditorium
\nSubject: Graduation ceremony of the 2017 class of Astronaut Candidates.
\nPhotographer: James Blair<\/p>\n

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\nLocation: Teague Auditorium
\nSubject: Graduation ceremony of the 2017 class of Astronaut Candidates.
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NASA and Dictionary.com driving the campaign to recruit future astronauts:<\/p>\n

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Calling all astrophiles! Today, March 2, NASA begins accepting applications for their next class of astronauts<\/strong>. Do you have what it takes to become a \u201cstar sailor\u201d? Watch this video to find out! <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Travel on, star sailor:<\/p>\n

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Astronaut<\/em> entered the orbit of English speakers in the late 1800s from the realm of science fiction. The first recorded instance comes from an 1880 novel by Percy Greg called Across the Zodiac: The Story of a Wrecked Record<\/em>, in which Astronaut<\/em> is the name of the narrator\u2019s spacecraft. The sense under discussion today, \u201ca person engaged in or trained for spaceflight,\u201d emerged in the 1920s, decades before the launch of Sputnik (1957) marked the beginning of the Space Age. Astronaut<\/em> is a compound of astro<\/em>\u2013 \u201cpertaining to stars or celestial bodies or to activities, as spaceflight, taking place outside the earth\u2019s atmosphere,\u201d from Greek \u00e1stron<\/em><\/em>\u201cstar, constellation,\u201d and \u2013naut <\/em>a combining form meaning \u201ctraveler,\u201d from Greek na\u00fat\u0113s<\/em><\/em> \u201csailor.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NASA opened astronaut applications to U.S. citizens today for the first time in over four years. <\/p>\n

Sarafina Nance, an astrophysics PhD student at UC Berkeley, didn\u2019t miss the opportunity to apply:<\/p>\n

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