For ten points, identify this profession, most notably practiced by such people as John Glenn, Alan Shepphard, and Neil Armstrong, and which involves traveling through space.
The title of a 1995 album by the band hum claimed that you would prefer one of these. With the year "1980" attached, this word forms the alternate title of the Japanese disaster film Yosei Gorasu, and a movie about a reluctant one was made in 1967 with Don Knotts in the title role. It was also the initial occupation of John Jameson, who fought against Spiderman as Man- Wolf and Star-God, and Forrest Gump spent some time as one in the book, which resulted in him crash-landing in New Guinea. Other fictional ones include Stanislaw Lem's Pirx the Pilot, while an aluminum sculpture representing fallen ones is the only piece of art on the moon. For ten points, identify this profession, most notably practiced by such people as John Glenn, Alan Shepphard, and Neil Armstrong, and which involves traveling through space.
The title of a 1995 album by the band hum claimed that you would prefer one of these.
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