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:astronaut:U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F680🧑‍🚀\1F9D1\200D\1F680"\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F680}"%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%9A%80A person in a space suit and helmet, standing for astronauts, space travel and exploration.
Space fans use it for launches, rockets and news from orbit, often with ๐ ๐ or ๐. It also stands for big goals and feeling far away: โmentally in orbit ๐งโ๐โ. Space-themed kids' parties use it too.
Astronaut ๐งโ๐ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐ rocket. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :astronaut:. People also look for it with words like โrocketโ or โspaceโ.
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