English > spaceman: 1 sense > noun 1, person Meaning | A person trained to travel in a spacecraft. |
---|
Synonyms | astronaut, cosmonaut |
---|
Instances | Armstrong, Neil Armstrong | United States astronaut |
---|
Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich 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 |
Shepard, Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. | 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) |
Narrower | spacewalker | An astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space |
---|
Broader | traveler, traveller | A person who changes location |
---|
Spanish | astronauta, cosmonauta |
---|
Catalan | astronauta, cosmonauta |
---|