An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
astronaut, spaceman, cosmonaut (noun)
a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
"the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"
Hypernyms
- traveler, traveller
a person who changes location
- traveler, traveller
Derivationally Related Forms
- astronautic, astronautical
of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics - astronautic, astronautical
of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics
- astronautic, astronautical
Related To
- spacewalker
an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space - Armstrong, Neil Armstrong
United States astronaut - Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968) - Glenn, John Glenn, John Herschel Glenn Jr .
made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962 - Shepard, Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr .
astronaut who made the first United States's suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998) - Tereshkova, Valentina Tereshkova, Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937)
- spacewalker
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