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This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
A microfilm Bible brought to the surface of the Moon by Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell was auctioned off in 2011. [6] It was a King James Version created after three astronauts lost their lives in the Apollo 1 fire. [6] Ed White, one of the astronauts who perished, had wanted to take a Bible to the Moon. [6]
Ancient astronauts [ edit ] He wrote the book "The Moon: The Key to the Bible" in 1968, in which he claimed the word "Elohim" mentioned in the Hebrew Genesis of the Bible, which is usually translated as God , should in fact be translated in the plural as "Gods" because the singular of the word Elohim is Eloah . [ 3 ]
His publications included The Natural History of the Bible (1867) and The Fauna and Flora of Palestine (1884). [92] Enoch Fitch Burr (1818–1907): astronomer and Congregational Church pastor who lectured extensively on the relationship between science and religion. He also wrote Ecce Coelum: or Parish Astronomy in 1867.
During their ninth orbit of the Moon astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis creation narrative from the King James Bible. [1] Anders read verses 1–4, Lovell verses 5–8, and Borman read verses 9 and 10.
Before astronaut school, there was college. astronaut Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when he became the first person to walk on the surface of the moon.
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
In the book and the Bible, Ezekiel gives a description of his takeoff and landing sites. In the Bible, Ezekiel 43:3 states "And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when he came to destroy the city. And the visions I saw were like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face."