GmooG (version 0.7)

astronauts: Human space flights

Description

Individuals who travelled into space between 1961 and 2019.

Usage

data(astronauts)

Format

A data frame with 1277 observations on the following 24 variables.

id

id number of record

number

id number of individual

nationwide_number

national number of individual

name

individual's name

original_name

name in own language

sex

sex of individual

year_of_birth

year of birth of individual

nationality

nationality

military_civilian

military or civilian

selection

selection group

year_of_selection

selection year

mission_number

mission number of individual

total_number_of_missions

total missions of individual

occupation

role on flight: commander, pilot, flight engineer, ...

year_of_mission

Mission year

mission_title

Mission name

ascend_shuttle

Name of ascent shuttle

in_orbit

Name of spacecraft used in orbit

descend_shuttle

Name of descent shuttle

hours_mission

Duration of mission in hours

total_hrs_sum

Total duration of all missions in hours

field21

Instances of EVA by mission

eva_hrs_mission

Duration of extravehicular activities during the mission

total_eva_hrs

Total duration of all extravehicular activities in hours

Details

This dataset is used in Chapter 10, "Who went up in space for how long?"

Examples

data(astronauts, package="GmooG")
library(tidyverse)
nc <- astronauts %>% count(nationality) %>% arrange(-n)