astronaut
космонавт (Anglecized . . . 'Cosmonaut')
astronaut cosmonaut
I wouldn't trade my dad for a cosmonaut! I'm pretty sure that it was a cosmonaut that was the first to orbit the Earth.
Valery V Ryumin was the ninth and final Russian cosmonaut to fly to Mir on an American Space Shuttle. He flew on STS-91.
No Russian cosmonaut has landed on the moon. The first human to walk on the moon was American astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969.
Cosmonaut
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first american to enter space
Cosmonaut. Space Sailor. Star Sailor.
Cosmonaut or astronaut.
kosmos meaning "universe" & nautes meaning "sailor"
Cosmonaut is the conventional English term for a Russian astronaut, but the terms astronaut and cosmonaut are considered interchangeable. Cosmonaut derives from the Greek for universe + sailor.The Soviet [Russian] cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has the distinction of having been the first human in space and the first to orbit, orbiting the Earth in 1961.
Astronaut and cosmonaut are the names given to people who travel in space, either as a pilot or crew member of a spacecraft. Astronaut is widely used by English-speaking countries, cosmonaut is used by Russia. Other countries like China use completely different words for space traveler.But they are essentially the same thing, astronaut being an American version and cosmonaut generally referring to Russian space travelers. It is the English rendering of the Russian word Kosmonavt