astronaut

1. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft (synset 109837427)
   "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"
   is a type of: traveler, traveller - a person who changes location
   subtypes: spacewalker - an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space
   specific instances:

   • 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)
   same as: cosmonaut, spaceman

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