Crossword clues for astronaut
astronaut
- LEM driver
- Rocketeer
- Person on a mission?
- A person trained to travel in a spacecraft
- Michael Collins, e.g.
- One suited to go for a walk?
- Modern explorer
- Man in space
- Space traveller
- Space station worker
- Foremost of adventurers travelling to Saturn?
- Armstrong or Sharman, say
- A confident walk catching on with a spaceman
- A supporter rounds on a spaceman
- Drunk, so a truant and I get really high!
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
astronaut \as"tro*naut\ adj. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; one who travels in a spacecraft; -- called in the Soviet Union and Russia cosmonaut.
Syn: spaceman, cosmonaut
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coined 1929 in science fiction, popularized from 1961 by U.S. space program, from astro- + nautes "sailor" (see naval). French astronautique (adj.) had been coined 1927 by "J.H. Rosny," pen name of Belgian-born science fiction writer Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (1856-1940) on model of aéronautique, and Astronaut was used in 1880 as the name of a fictional spaceship by English writer Percy Greg (1836-1889) in "Across the Zodiac."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose. 2 (cx Hong Kong English) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and his/her adopted home country.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.
Starting in the 1950s up to 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. With the suborbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.
Astronaut is the 11th studio album by English pop rock band Duran Duran, first released on 11 October 2004 (see 2004 in music).
This was Duran Duran's first studio album since Pop Trash (2000), and the first (and, to date, last) full album since Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983) to be recorded by the most famous five member lineup of the band (the stand-alone 1985 single " A View to a Kill" was their last studio recording together.)
An astronaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
Astronaut or astronauts may also refer to:
- The Astronauts, a Polish novel published in 1951
- The Astronauts (band), a 1960s American surf band
- The Astronauts (film), a 1960 live television play
- The Astronaut, a 1972 science fiction film
- The Astronauts (UK band), the 1970s UK post-punk band of Mark Astronaut
- Astronauts (band), 2010s British band
- Astronaut (Duran Duran album), 2004
- Astronaut (Salem Al Fakir album), 2009
- Astronauts (TV series), a British sitcom
- Astronaut, a 2006 EP by Unheilig
- "Astronaut" (song), a 2011 song by Simple Plan
- "Astronaut", the debut video single by Amanda Palmer for her album Who Killed Amanda Palmer
- A name for an Hong Kong returnee
- Astronaut, an English electronic dance music duo, signed to Monstercat
Astronaut is the second studio album by Salem Al Fakir, released on March 18, 2009. The album was credited to his mononym Salem rather than his full name Salem Al Fakir as in the case of his debut album This Is Who I Am.
"Astronaut" is the third single that was taken from Simple Plan's fourth studio album, Get Your Heart On!. In December 2012, the song was played in orbit in space by astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Usage examples of "astronaut".
Joe Kerwin, a medical astronaut with weeks in orbit, was unusually helpful on four different occasions.
It would be impossible to imagine a bachelor astronaut, because half his significance would be missing.
Huntsville will take responsibility for a couple, California for two or three, Mississippi for one, and Houston for its two, plus the astronaut program itself.
Asia, supervising intelligence flights over trouble spots like Korea and Vietnam when the first BuPers announcement was posted inviting any Navy fliers with test-pilot experience to volunteer for the pool from which a small group of men would be chosen for astronaut training.
Pope enormously, and he began a collection of major stories about the astronaut and his reception in various nations.
Pacific waters, but it did not, and when Pope reported for duty as executive officer he learned that his immediate assignment was to accompany the carrier out of Jacksonville and into the Caribbean, where it would serve as the principal recovery vessel for the three-orbit flight which Astronaut Scott Carpenter was about to make in his Mercury capsule Aurora-7.
Mercury flight, arrange for the orderly transfer of the astronaut to the carrier, and dispatch the proper messages to assure the world that the flight had ended safely.
When I cautioned you then against becoming an astronaut, I was thinking selfishly only of the Navy.
On the other hand, no astronaut, regardless of the pressure we put him under, has ever developed a gastric ulcer.
The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.
Usually she was far ahead of him in her shrewd analysis of the astronaut program, and her witty observations on the other men of the Solid Six were startling in their perceptions.
Motors had presented each astronaut with a Corvette, and the men loved these sleek, swift cars.
It was a tradition that when astronauts were cooped in their tiny quarters, hundreds of miles from anything and thousands of miles into an orbit, only one person on ground must be allowed to communicate with them lest there be confusion in commands or a babel of voices, and that one person must be a fellow astronaut, preferably one who had already flown.
Have developed a routine in which he is a Tex-Mex astronaut coming home after eleven months on the Moon, she pregnant.
Mott observed a growing testiness in the astronaut, and when he reached Houston he suggested that Pope be summoned back from Canaveral and be given some rest and recuperation.