astronaut
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
astronaut (plural astronauts)
- A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
- An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut , taikonaut and vyomanaut.
- 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation ISBN 9780486135915
- Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.
- 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation ISBN 9780486135915
- An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut , taikonaut and vyomanaut.
- (Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and his/her adopted home country.
- French: astronaute
- German: Astronaut, Raumfahrer, Kosmonaut, Weltraumpilot, Raumpilot
- Italian: astronauta
- Portuguese: astronauta
- Russian: космона́вт
- Spanish: astronauta
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