How to Use cosmonaut in a Sentence

cosmonaut

noun

• At one point the Soviet space program did train female cosmonauts, and Ms. Popovich was admitted for testing.
  — Sophia Kishkovsky, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
• So far, Russians had focused on the airlock module, which would be used by spacewalking cosmonauts and astronauts and to dock arriving crew vehicles.
  — Anatoly Zak, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2018
• American astronauts teamed up with Russian cosmonauts and a Japanese astronaut to make the game happen.
  — Time, 7 Feb. 2018
• The movie is about a Russian doctor who launches to the ISS to save the life of a cosmonaut.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• That’s still well short of the world record for a stint in space, set by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Novitskiy, who spent more than six months aboard the space station, is to star as the ailing cosmonaut in the movie.
  — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2021
• Only one of the three — cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov — was alive at the time of Apollo 11.
  — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2019
• Soviet cosmonaut Ghermon Titov holds the record for the youngest to fly in space.
  — Marcia Dunn, Chron, 15 July 2021
• Novitskiy, who is set to star as the ailing cosmonaut in the film, will take the captain’s seat in a Soyuz capsule to take the crew back to Earth on Oct. 17.
  — Fox News, 5 Oct. 2021
• Peresild will star as a surgeon who has to save a cosmonaut at the space station.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 Oct. 2021
• The plant is named after the Soviet cosmonaut who was the first person in space.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• In the end, no Soviet cosmonauts ever flew around the Moon.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• Alice and Jo are both able to hear the plea for help from the female cosmonaut, and Alice identifies her as the Valya, both alive and dead.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
• In each case, a professional cosmonaut will be in charge of the Soyuz capsule.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
• Normally, the spacecraft name represents the place where the cosmonauts have grown up or where they were born.
  — Matthew Kronsberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2018
• The failure of the second launch sealed the Soviet's fate in the moon race and raised the question if a Soviet cosmonaut would ever walk on the moon.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2020
• At the time, the whole world had its eyes on the stars; earlier that spring, a Soviet cosmonaut had beaten the Americans to space.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
• The current record for the longest continuous stay in space is held by the cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov.
  — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
• The package also has a tape of a female cosmonaut from November of 1967.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
• The legendary Soviet cosmonaut who became the first person to walk in space.
  — Bernard McGhee, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2019
• Hague and his crewmate, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, emerged unscathed, but this was the first such event for the Russians in 35 years.
  — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 12 July 2019
• The new documentary about Russia's doomed canine cosmonaut hurts the soul—and turns the stomach.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 7 Sep. 2020
• The two cosmonauts are midway through a yearlong stay aboard the space station while O'Hara is wrapping up a more typical six-month tour.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
• In 1965, the Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2021
• The cosmonaut remains one of the most admired figures in Russia to this day and countless murals, statues and art pay tribute to him.
  — Niall McCarthy, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• Russia marks the 60th anniversary of the first human flight in outer space by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
  — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2021
• The Soviet Union, on the other hand, had a woman — Valentina Tereshkova — as its sixth cosmonaut 20 years ago.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2018
• The available Russian sources do not elaborate whether cosmonauts could use the weapon on a spacewalk outside the station.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2018
• A couple of hours after arriving at the outpost, Wilmore and Williams will open a hatch and float inside the sprawling research lab to join the six astronauts and cosmonauts living there.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 June 2024
• Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will embark on his first trip to the space station as a mission specialist.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024