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  Astronaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Cosmonaut" is an anglicization of the Russian word космонавт (kosmonavt), which in turn derives from the Greek words kosmos, meaning "universe" and nautes, meaning "sailor".
For the most part, "cosmonaut" and "astronaut" are synonyms in all languages, and the usage of choice is often dictated by political reasons.
The first cosmonaut was Yuri Gagarin, who was launched into space on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astronaut   (1077 words)

  
 Popovich
A fighter escort intercepts the cosmonauts' aircraft at 13:00, and the aircraft lands at Moscow at 14:00 sharp.
The cosmonauts' wives are preparing a letter denouncing Popovich for shutting down his wife's career and his abuse of her.
Cosmonaut assignments were in constant flux, resulting in many claims in later years that 'I was being trained for the first moon flight'.
www.astronautix.com /astros/popovich.htm   (8648 words)

  
 After 10 months, cosmonaut returns to a strange new world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He blasted off from one country -- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- last May. He landed Wednesday in the sovereign nation of Kazakhstan -- one of the 15 countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States that was formed in December -- and was lucky he was not asked for an entry visa.
The cosmonaut was gently lifted out of his space capsule -- a Soyuz TM-13 -- placed on a chair and carried to a group of reporters and photographers.
With all the changes, the cosmonaut might have been relieved to discover that his wife -- whose name is still Lena -- and their 2-year-old son were waiting for him.
www.chron.com /content/interactive/space/missions/mir/news/1992/19920326.html   (629 words)

  
 Cosmonaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cosmonauts in orbit;: The story of the Soviet manned space program
The Soviet cosmonaut team: A comprehensive guide to the men and women of the Soviet manned space programme
Cosmonauts Last Message To The Women He Once Loved
www.veryhappening.com /things/cosmonaut   (99 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Russian cosmonaut still plans space marriage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko may be about to find out: The International Space Station crewman plans to get married while in orbit this weekend, jilting superiors on Earth who accused him of showboating and advised him to wait.
The cosmonaut and his fiancee were issued a marriage license last month in her home state of Texas, which allows weddings in which one party is not present.
While the groom won't be at his own wedding — a circumstance that normally leads to tears — he intends to call his bride on a special phone from the space station, Gorbunov said.
www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2003-08-06-orbit-marriage_x.htm   (690 words)

  
 BBC News | SCI/TECH | Cosmonaut shaken back to health
The Italian cosmonaut who flew with space tourist Mark Shuttleworth last month is completing an experiment that could have major implications for the way we treat osteoporosis sufferers.
An attempt to impact the heel of a German cosmonaut on Mir to simulate the strains of walking for 10 minutes a day managed to fend off a 7% bone loss during a 140-day flight in 1995.
This latest cosmonaut study comes off the back of a recent trial of the technique by Ongaro iwith 11 osteoporotic women in Rome.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/sci/tech/1989461.stm   (809 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Cosmonaut Keep   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The foreground action-adventure points to a bigger picture and a master plan known only to the godlike hive-minds who built the "Second Sphere" of interstellar culture and who regard traditional SF dreams of unlimited human expansion through space as precisely equivalent to floods of e-mail spam polluting the tranquil galactic net.
Elizabeth and Gregor are of different social classes: Elizabeth, it seems, is a "native", while Gregor is a descendant of the "cosmonauts", who arrived at Mingulay some centuries earlier from Earth, in a starship which is now unusable.
Soon another starship arrives: this one bearing human traders from Nova Babylonia, traders who in some ways resemble Anderson's Kith (and Heinlein's Traders from _Citizen of the Galaxy_, and Vinge's Qeng Ho), though their starship is actually controlled by aliens called Krakens, who naturally enough are huge entities that live in water.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857239865   (1739 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Fall of a Cosmonaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
However, locating a "fallen cosmonaut" is not as easy as it seems; the Inspector knows that his case has the highest priority.
Fall of a Cosmonaut is the 13th of 14 Stuart Kaminsky Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries, and he hasn't written a new one since 2001.
Cosmonaut is an unalloyed triumph of man, of his spirit, and of the vital diversity that makes man what he/she is.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0892966688?v=glance   (2467 words)

  
 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Soviet cosmonaut
MOSCOW -- Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record at the time, has died.
Nikolayev became Russia's third cosmonaut to travel into space when he and Pavel Popovich were launched in separate crafts in August 1962.
Nikolayev was a key member of the proud Soviet cosmonaut corps, which included Yuri Gagarin, the first man to fly into space in 1961.
www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nws-xnik06.html   (184 words)

  
 Autographed Space Items
This Russian Federation Flag was flown on STS-105 to the ISS and back from the station onboard the STS-108 by Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov.
It is the same hat worn by the first cosmonaut in space Yuri Gagarin and they are also used by the Russian Air Force pilots.
This hard pack/box of cigarettes is autographed by the commander of the mission cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
www.hightechscience.org /authographed_space_items.htm   (781 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Cosmonaut Keep
By far the most interesting story-strand is set on the planet Mingulay, in a complex society of humans, saurs, krakens and other sentients.
Other readers see Poul Anderson influences in Cosmonaut Keep -- what I saw were David Brin touches, and explicit references to Hans Moravec who, come to think of it, was a major inspiration for the AI Wars in MacLeod's first four novels.
Cosmonaut Keep is the first of a new series, Engines of Light.
www.sfsite.com /10a/ck113.htm   (638 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Russian Cosmonaut in Space Station Proceeds With Marriage
MOSCOW (AP) -- International Space Station cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko is going forward with plans to get married while in orbit, ignoring officials' advice to wait until his return to Earth, a Russian space official said Tuesday.
The cosmonaut can also call his bride on a special phone from the space station, but this must be done during time slots officially allocated for contacts between the crew and their relatives, Gorbunov said.
The cosmonaut informed Russian space officials of his marriage plans when he was already in orbit, angering the Russian air force chief, Col. Gen.
www.space.com /missionlaunches/exp7_wedding_030805.html   (684 words)

  
 To Land A Cosmonaut On The Moon
It was intended to carry one cosmonaut to the surface of the Moon while the other stayed in lunar orbit.
The backpack life-support unit is hinged like a door, allowing the cosmonaut to step into the suit.
Although the arms and legs are flexible, the torso of the Krechet suit is a semi-rigid shell.
www.nasm.si.edu /exhibitions/gal114/SpaceRace/sec300/sec362.htm   (292 words)

  
 Vladimir Solovyov (cosmonaut) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Vladimir Alekseyevich Soloviyov, born November 11, 1946 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, was a USSR cosmonaut.
He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-10 and Soyuz T-15, spending 361 days 22 hours 49 minutes in space.
His first flight (Soyuz T-10) took off on February 8, 1984, to join Salyut 7.
www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Vladimir_Solovyov_(cosmonaut)   (285 words)

  
 CNN - Memoirs of a candid cosmonaut - August 18, 1999
"Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space" is the first-person account of a mission to the Salyut-7 space station between May and December of 1982.
It is ironic that perhaps the most candid first-person account of spaceflight would come from a Soviet cosmonaut.
But as Mir enters its final days as a human outpost, it is worth remembering the Russians have now accumulated nearly 20 uninterrupted years of experience living in low-Earth orbit, and they have an amazing story to tell.
www.cnn.com /TECH/space/9908/18/downlinks   (750 words)

  
 collectSPACE - resources and guides - cosmonaut addresses
Retired cosmonauts particularly still take their time since requests are forwarded to them and then return to Star City where handling still takes some time.
Whereas flown Russian cosmonauts may send Official Mail, unflown cosmonauts and non-Russian cosmonauts (except for active NASA or European guest cosmonauts) have to pay for their postage.
In Russia and the C.I.S. unflown cosmonauts are usually not regarded as cosmonauts, and it has been a habit amongst cosmonauts not to send out signatures before the space flight effectively has taken place.
www.collectspace.com /resources/autographs_caddresses.html   (324 words)

  
 collectSPACE - news - "Salyut cosmonaut Rukavishnikov dies"
He was selected for cosmonaut training in May 1966, as a member of the Soviet manned lunar program and then as back-up researcher for Soyuz 7 before being assigned to the Salyut cosmonaut group.
The cosmonauts were forced to use back-up equipment to get home, landing in darkness after enduring unusually high G-loads during reentry.
By October 1982, when Rukavishnikov began training as part of a USSR-India Salyut 7 flight, the other cosmonauts were joking that each Salyut was equipped with an "anti-Rukavishnikov" device (he had also been assigned to a Salyut crew in 1973, but Salyut itself failed to reach orbit).
www.collectspace.com /news/news-102102a.html   (371 words)

  
 Cosmonauts walk out on training in protest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Russian cosmonauts walked out of a NASA training session in protest Monday when told that a member of their crew, an American multimillionaire, wouldn't be allowed to train with them.
Under the plan, Tito and the two cosmonauts would return in the old Soyuz six days after dropping off the new one.
At a brief meeting Monday, NASA officials handed the Russian cosmonauts training schedules but gave the American a schedule that "was more of a tour," Tito said.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001-03-19-cosmonauts.htm   (487 words)

  
 Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. Official Web
With the purpose of solution of the tasks it is entrusted with a highly developed space infrastructure was created and Yu.
Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Centre of Cosmonaut Training is one of its primary parts.
All the interested persons are welcome to become familiar with the summary of the Centre history and achievements.
gctc.ru /eng   (117 words)

  
 Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Astronaut / Cosmonaut Deaths
Yuri Gagarin became a cosmonaut in 1960 and the first human in space on 12 April 1961.
Kononenko was a civilian test pilot selected for cosmonaut training in June 1980.
He was to become a pilot for the Buran space shuttle, but died on 8 September 1980 in the crash of a Yak-38.
www.aerospaceweb.org /question/history/q0114.shtml   (3330 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Cosmonaut Icecream
It was a crunchy, dry, but sweet and creamy treat that astronauts supposedly took with them to eat on missions.
Cosmonaut Icecream: slightly different than the astronaut version.
Cosmonaut Steak and Potatoes dinner in a tube: Ingredients: Vodka.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/Cosmonaut_20Icecream   (118 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com 40 years of Soviet space conquest record:Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov first-ever space walk
The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the one who climbed out of the spacecraft and into open space for the first time in history.
At one point the cosmonaut was unable to pass through the manhole back into the spacecraft because his spacesuit swelled up.
The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the one who climbed out of the spacecraft and into open space for the first time in history More details...
newsfromrussia.com /main/2005/03/23/58784.html   (1724 words)

  
 Space Adventures — Cosmonaut Overview Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The COP experience is customized to give you an appreciation for what a cosmonaut trainee undergoes during his or her months of unique training prior to a flight to the International Space Station.
At the end of your training, you will have had a glimpse of what cosmonauts and Space Adventures mission candidates experience in the months leading up to launch.
Over eight days, you will experience what it means to be a cosmonaut, allowing you to gauge for yourself whether you are ready for the next step: a real spaceflight with Space Adventures.
www.spaceadventures.com /training/cosmonaut   (401 words)

  
 Fate of First Canine Cosmonaut Revealed
The Siberian husky with a mongrel mix, rounded up as a stray and trained as the planet's first cosmonaut, probably died from overheating on November 3 1957 when Soviet...
The Siberian husky with a mongrel mix, rounded up as a stray and trained as the planet's first cosmonaut, probably died from overheating on November 3 1957 when Soviet ground engineers failed to notice the problem.
Laika was one of 10 dogs to complete a special space training course, and one of three selected by space scientists: Laika was to be the cosmonaut, Albina her understudy and Mushka the "technological dog" on which ground crew could test the satellite's life support systems.
www.buzzle.com /editorials/10-30-2002-29225.asp   (493 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Cosmonaut Keep (The Engines of Light, Book 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Like a British--specifically, Scottish--counterpart of Bruce Sterling, Ken MacLeod is an SF author who has thought hard about politics and delights in making unlikely alternatives plausible, grippingly readable, and often downright funny.
Two hundred years later, biologist Gregor Cairns, a descendant of the cosmonauts who colonized the planet Mingulay, realizes that navigating the stars may be within the grasp of humans, and he sets out to find some of the long-lived crew of the Bright Star, the original starship to reach the planet.
Gregor's investigation of the aliens who pilot interplanetary craft the friendly but uncommunicative saurs and the huge kraken eventually leads to a surprising link between past and present.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076530032X?v=glance   (900 words)

  
 Space Exploration Interviews: Historical Reminiscences of Cosmonaut Georgi Grechko, Part 1
What follows is part one of an interview with cosmonaut Dr. Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko made on April 7, 1993 by Dennis Newkirk(DN), author of the Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight, and Jim Plaxco(JP).
After cancellation of the lunar landing missions, all cosmonauts were transferred to either the ASTP, Salyut, or Almaz programs.
They are getting awards for this kind of space station and even the first cosmonaut on board said that its a bad idea.
www.astrodigital.org /space/intgrechko1.html   (1672 words)

  
 Collecting Cosmonaut Autographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There is good news and bad news regarding obtaining cosmonaut autographs by mail.
If you decide to collect cosmonauts "seriously", there are very few expensive cosmonaut autographs; most cosmonaut autographs are available for under $20.
Photos are usually postcard sized and may not be in color.
members.aol.com /kss71/autogs/cosmo.htm   (382 words)

  
 Former Soviet cosmonaut dead at 74 - Space News - MSNBC.com
MOSCOW - Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, whose 1962 flight into space set an endurance record at the time, has died.
The pair made the first simultaneous flights, and Nikolayev set a separate endurance record, circling the Earth 64 times in 96 hours.
Twice named a Hero of the Soviet Union, Nikolayev was a key member of the proud Soviet cosmonaut corps, which included Yuri Gagarin, the first man to fly into space in 1961.
msnbc.msn.com /id/5365866   (324 words)

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