cosmonaut

• “Once the cosmonaut is in then the appendix is rolled up and secured with strong elastic bands.”

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• “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.”

  Is Senator Bill Nelson an Astronaut? - NASA Watch

• “The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft will dock with the ISS on Sunday, where the crew will join Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.”

  RIA Novosti

• “I was inspecting their satellite ... how'd I know their cosmonaut was a scared kid?”

  Fictionaut: Ten Minutes, That's It

• “But the cosmonaut was a woman, a fact that Kinsman did not know until he had pulled the airhose out of her helmet, suffocating her.”

  Fictionaut: Ten Minutes, That's It

• “Later on in the conversation, when Nicole told Dr. Hakamatsu that the unexplained data had actually come from the probes inside one of his countrymen, namely cosmonaut-scientist Takagishi, the usually restrained engineer had actually shouted into the phone.”

  Rama Revisited

• “According to Wired, the astronaut is actually a cosmonaut, which is just a Russian version of an astronaut.”

  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

• “Another variation on the term is "cosmonaut", coined during the Soviet space era.”

  Boing Boing

• “In 1961, as Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, ground control heard the awestruck cosmonaut utter, "The Earth is blue.”

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• “The International Space Station, once a place where astronauts would share food and facilities, is said to be embroiled in a Cold War-like stand-off after a Russian cosmonaut complained he is no longer allowed to use a US toilet or the US gym machine.”

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