spaceman

Other forms: spacemen

Definitions of spaceman
  1. noun
    a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
    synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut
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    Neil Armstrong
    United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
    Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968)
    John Herschel Glenn Jr.
    made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)
    Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
    astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
    Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova
    Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937)
    types:
    spacewalker
    an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space
    type of:
    traveler, traveller
    a person who changes location
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