11.   In seeking its first astronauts, NASA required jet aircraft flight experience and engineering training.

12.   Its arrival stalled more than two years by Russian economic problems, the crew module will equip the station for its first resident astronauts and cosmonauts in November.

13.   Lovell expects the film to be the first great astronaut movie.

14.   Sally Ride was the first female American astronaut in space.

15.   Sculptor Ed Dwight, the first black astronaut, designed the monument.

16.   The supplies include laptop computers, clothing and spare parts for the first resident astronauts and cosmonauts.

17.   The three are to be picked up in June by an American space shuttle, becoming the first astronauts to go up in one spaceship and down in another.

18.   They were, as John Glenn has so graciously acknowledged, the first astronauts.

19.   This prototype of a Mercury mission training suit, like those donned by the first U.S. astronauts, was designed by the BF Goodrich Company.

20.   Thousands had already watched Alan Shepard become the first American astronaut in space the previous year.