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astronaut
[as-truh-nawt, -not]
noun
a person engaged in or trained for spaceflight.
astronaut
/ ˈæٰəˌɔː /
noun
a person trained for travelling in space See also cosmonaut
astronaut
A crew member of a space mission launched by the United States. (See Apollo program and Mercury program.)
Word History and Origins
Origin of astronaut1
Word History and Origins
Origin of astronaut1
Example Sentences
The proposed budget does include two longer-term scientific goals endorsed by Trump — a return of astronauts to the moon via a project dubbed Artemis, and the landing of a crew on Mars.
The space agency also expects to use its Starship rocket to send astronauts to the Moon and eventually to Mars once it has been developed.
Musk threatened to retaliate by decommissioning SpaceX's Dragon, which ferries astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station.
You’ve probably heard astronauts talking to mission control while they perform operations in space.
The astronauts had been travelling on a test flight that was meant to last eight days.
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