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cosmonaut

ˈkɔzməˌnɔt
WordNet
Interesting fact
There was a post office on the Russian space station Mir. Visiting cosmonauts would use unique postal "markers" to stamp envelopes and other items as having flown aboard the Mir space station
  1. (n) cosmonaut
    a person trained to travel in a spacecraft "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"
Usage in the news

ISS cosmonauts on spacewalk today. blog.seattlepi.com

Two Russian cosmonauts will attept to upgrade the International Space Station Monday during a scheduled 6.5-hour spacewalk , space.com is reporting. blog.seattlepi.com

Cosmonauts on Live Spacewalk . ired.com

Today two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station will conduct a six-hour spacewalk , installing laser communications equipment and replacing experiments on the Zvezda service module, a Russian portion of the ISS. ired.com

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan – A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed back on Earth on Friday after a nearly six month expedition to the International Space Station. foxnews.com

Azam was among the three British artists who took part in a performance piece aboard a Russian aircraft used for cosmonaut training. usatoday.com

Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. theatlantic.com

Fifty years ago Tuesday, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly in space. pbs.org

The International Space Station (ISS) crew members, US astronaut Kevin Ford (L) and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy (C) and Evgeny Tarelkin. kwch.com

Astronaut , cosmonaut brace for whole year in space. thedailyworld.com

Four cosmonauts spent at least a year aboard the old Mir space station. hiznews.com

Following a two day journey, two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut docked at the International Space Station. csmonitor.com

A sign of a leaky valve on the International Space Station held up Russian cosmonauts for nearly an hour Monday, as flight controllers sought to isolate the suspected leak . csmonitor.com

Studio Neat 's Cosmonaut makes stellar iPad sketches. macworld.com

The Russians made their first cosmonaut a hero. airspacemag.com

Usage in literature

We see Soviet cosmonauts in space all the time. "Project Daedalus" by Thomas Hoover