1 An astronaut will attempt to leave the stationary spaceship and then return to it.
2 The rocket boosts the astronaut into space.
3 About an hour later, mission commander and veteran astronaut Jing Haipeng, 45, emerged from the capsule, followed by crew mates Liu Wang, 43, and 33-year-old Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut.
4 I can understand why astronauts find it difficult to readjust to life on earth.
5 The astronauts are conducting a series of experiments to learn more about how the body adapts to weightlessness.
6 For a few tense minutes, the astronauts lost radio contact with mission control.
7 News of the astronauts'safe return to earth was delayed.
8 In his speech, the president will extol the astronauts, calling them the pioneers of the Space Age.
9 Discovery astronauts spent six and a half hours today unhooking a huge girder from the backbone of the International Space Station.
10 Though the odds against their survival seemed insuperable, the Apollo 13 astronauts reached earth safely.