1.   I wanted to be the first astronaut to set foot on the moon.

2.   After the war he joined Chuck Yeager in an elite fraternity of test pilots, many of whom became the first astronauts.

3.   All of the gear will be in place as the first resident astronauts and cosmonauts begin to arrive in November.

4.   But Shepard got the glory of the first American space flight, and Marine pilot John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut to make full Earth orbits.

5.   Duque is the first Spaniard in space, and Mukai is the first Japanese astronaut to go twice.

6.   Glenn, a four-term senator, was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth.

7.   He is scheduled to be the first U.S. astronaut to work aboard the International Space Station.

8.   He oversaw the development of the Mercury spacecraft and made the flight assignments for the first astronauts.

9.   He sought to fly in the Gemini project, which followed the pioneering Mercury flights of the first astronauts.

10.   If that mission is a success, the first astronauts will begin living in the service module in October.