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- noun Plural form of
cosmonaut .
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Examples
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They will join Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko, and U.S.
RIA Novosti 2010
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Recently, he’s been painting a series of cosmonauts, which is why we’re looking at his work.
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The first two ground-based "cosmonauts" have now been selected for the big Mars500 experiment,
Fast Company 2010
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After about 250 days, the crew will be split in two, and three "cosmonauts" will move into a separate container to walk on the
TrekMovie.com Kayla Iacovino 2010
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A primitive space station is launched by Russia, in which Russian "cosmonauts" live for weeks at a time.
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Russia had been noted to help Cuba on this kind of space efforts before, as USSR invited Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez as the first non-U. S. person to fly into space from the western hemisphere during their guest cosmonaut program in 1980, along with other "cosmonauts" from Romania, the former East Germany, Poland, Afghanistan, Mongolia and Vietnam.
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It will replace the venerable three-seat Soyuz capsule, which has carried Russian cosmonauts into orbit for more than four decades.
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To replace with Soviet capability, the cost is now $1.428 Billion to launch 28 astro/cosmonauts on Soyuz if the Russians could have launched 7 flights in one year.
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Clad in a scarlet coat, Chapman was seen at a farewell ceremony for U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts in Baikonur, a Russia-leased cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan.
Anna Chapman, 'Bombshell' Russian Spy, Steals Show At Kazakhstan Space Launch AP 2010
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Well there have been 2 Soyuz failures with a total crew loss of 3 cosmonauts over 101 flights and 258 cosmonauts flown.
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