Astronaut 🧑‍🚀
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The astronaut emoji, depicting a person in white spacesuit alongside a rocket. This emoji is used to express astronauts, space exploration, and NASA themes. Common usage includes 'Want to be an astronaut🧑‍🚀' 'ISS commander🧑‍🚀' or 'Space dreams🧑‍🚀' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series using 'person + object' combination format.

Since Yuri Gagarin's first human spaceflight in 1961, humanity has been exploring space, with astronauts from various countries currently rotating duties on the International Space Station (ISS). Iconic astronauts include Neil Armstrong (moon landing), Sally Ride (first American woman in space), Mae Jemison, Chris Hadfield, and Japanese astronauts like Mamoru Mohri, Chiaki Mukai, Koichi Wakata, and Soichi Noguchi. Recent commercial space travel by SpaceX and Blue Origin has made space more accessible. The emoji is used to express children's dreams, future aspirations, space exploration, and pursuing one's dreams.