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• n  a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
  the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts

• It was on that day that a brave young Russian cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin climbed into the Vostok 1 spacecraft and was shot into space from a lonely area of Kazakhstan.
• A cosmonaut is nearly lost In the sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, a space-walking astronaut is separated from his ship and sent hurtling off to his death in space by an.
• Radio reports identified the "cosmonaut" as Major Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, 27.

• astronaut
• spaceman

News & Articles

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• Mercury 13 Author Can Speak on 50th Anniversary of Women in Space
  Fifty years ago this month, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. It took the U.S. until June 18, 1983 to send a woman into space, despite training 13 women in the early 1960s.
  June 12, 2013 - Newswise
• First woman in space ready for one-way trip to Mars
  KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, 76, said she's ready to take a one-way trip to Mars.
  June 7, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Valentin Lebedev in USA Today
  We don't understand what's going on with us,one of the crewmembers, Valentin Lebedev, wrote in the book "Diary of a Cosmonaut." "We silently walk by each other, feeling offended. We have to find some way to make things better."
• Alexander Volkov in AFP
  It's been difficult for me as a father. I know what he's going to face and I know how tough it is.......... I'm worried of course but I'm very proud that my son has chosen to be a cosmonaut,Alexander Volkov said.
• Yi So-yeon in Aero-News Network
  I don't know why, but I criedsaid South Korean spacefarer Yi So-Yeon, who went into space in April and watched Garriott's liftoff from Kazakstan Sunday. "Now Richard has become a real cosmonaut."