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[as-truh-nawt, -not]

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noun

a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.

Origin:
1925–30; astro- + (aero)naut, probably via French astronaute; see astronautical

Can be confused: astronaut, cosmonaut.

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Morgan is now an astronaut by profession, heading into space this week for the first time on the space shuttle.

Blast off with an astronaut on his journey into space.

Before recombination, a hypothetical astronaut on a spacewalk might have been unable to see the mother ship.

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Morgan is now an astronaut by profession, heading into space this week for the first time on the space shuttle.

Blast off with an astronaut on his journey into space.

Before recombination, a hypothetical astronaut on a spacewalk might have been unable to see the mother ship.

If the timing is right, day-trippers may also get the chance to meet an astronaut and even view a liftoff.

The astronaut said he used a push-and-glide motion similar to cross-country skiing when he was on the moon.

The former astronaut ventured more than seven million miles on his two trips into space, so the.

For all the astronaut and army outfits, it is the silky stuff they love.

The astronaut talks about his lunar mission, the scandal that followed and the future of space missions.

In both of these cases, the floor pushes up on the astronaut with the same magnitude.

He is the first astronaut to head it and the first to.

Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up.

The pioneering astronaut foresees hotels in orbit-and trouble down below.

The beam will reflect off the astronaut and thrust him toward the ship as if he were a solar sail.

We'll need it to keep the pool of potential women astronaut full.

In the midst of an affair, the astronaut heroine of this novel becomes stranded in orbit.

Just buy some of those astronaut diapers, you'll be fine.

And without a vigorous exercise program, an astronaut would likely.

Depending on how it's processed, the plastic can be used to wrap a sandwich or tether an astronaut during a walk in deep space.

If a white suit gets dirty, you wouldn't be able to differentiate an astronaut on the surface," he said.

View more photographs of shuttle preparations and astronaut training in this gallery.

Consider if a hapless astronaut were to fall into a black hole.

For an astronaut in a bulky spacesuit, exposed to the.

The tips flaked and broke off, drifting in microgravity where they could potentially harm an astronaut or equipment.

Jellyroll, i think you underestimate the value of the waving astronaut i want to be that guy.

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astronaut (ˈæstrəˌnɔːt)

—n
	See also cosmonaut a person trained for travelling in space

[C20: from astro- + -naut from Greek nautēs sailor, on the model of aeronaut]

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Word Origin & History

astronaut

coined 1929 (but popularized 1961) from astro- + nautes "sailor" (see naval). Fr. astronautique (adj.) had been coined 1927 by "J.H. Rosny," pen name of Belgian-born science fiction writer Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (18561940).

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astronaut definition

A crew member of a space mission launched by the United States. (See Apollo program and Mercury program.)

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