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UK
/ˈæstɹənˌɔːt/
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[ US /ˈæstɹəˌnɑt/ ]
[ US /ˈæstɹəˌnɑt/ ]
NOUN
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a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts
How To Use astronaut In A Sentence
- the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether
- On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
- Since most of the shuttle system was designed to be reusable, it was supposed to take the astronomical costs out of astronautics.
- The new system "can cover the civilian and military sides," said Xu Shijie, a professor of astronautics at Beihang University in Beijing. Mistrust stalls U.S.-China space cooperation
- An equipment failure of accident on the moon could have left the astronauts stranded.
- Inside a spacecraft in orbit round the Earth an astronaut could float weightless, hardly in contact with the floor.
- Morphing "spacesuit" can adjust on astronaut's body to ensure perfect fit The 4-mm long 'peacock spider' and its mating ritual to attract a mate Walking while talking on cell phone risky for older people: Study LONDON - India has urged Western countries to stop eating beef in order to cut greenhouse emissions. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- We salute his many accomplishments as an astronaut and as a husband and father.
- But a tiny new system designed to monitor astronauts' health promises to take less of your blood than a mosquito bite. Times, Sunday Times
- Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times