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astronaut (enc)

Astronaut

Noun1.astronaut - a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"
traveler, traveller - a person who changes location
spacewalker - an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space
Armstrong, Neil Armstrong - United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Yuri 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; later in United States Senate (1921-)
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Alan Shepard, Shepard - astronaut who made the first United States' 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)

 

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