Cosmonauts go into space. They're just like astronauts, but
they're from Russia.
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Russian astronauts
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More properly Cosmonaut, she was a Russian lady. There are
rumors the Soviets lost, fatally at least two female cosmonauts in
separate flights.
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The Russians called their spacemen "cosmonauts". The US used
"astronauts", meaning sailors of the stars. Cosmonauts means
sailors of the universe. Both are pretty grandiose for people who
haven't even passed Luna's orbit.