cosmonaut

• I happen to have spent some days hanging out with a Russian cosmonaut, and most of the historical events in the novel are true, including the mysterious deaths of Yuri Gagarin, in an easy plane flight to keep up his hours, and of Sergei Korolov, chief of the Russian space program, on an operating table. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
• A former test pilot and the wife of a highly decorated cosmonaut, Gen. Pavel Popovich, the visiting colonel said she had received the alarming photo itself from cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, her friend But if Washington, DC, astronomer Tom Van Flandern, formerly of the U.S. Naval Observatory and now head of his own group, Meta Research, is correct, the failure of the probe was no mystery at all. —  Omni: May 1993
• “Each cosmonaut or crew of cosmonauts signs his name in that large brown book on the day of their flight into space,” she says softly, whispering in this hallowed space. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
• According to the cosmonaut, his colleagues in space are more, well, grounded. —  NYT > Home Page
• "Honestly, I don't expect that to happen with this crew," said Sergei N. Ryazansky, the mission commander who is an cosmonaut-in-training. —  NYT > Home Page

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