Where Does The Word Astronaut Come From?
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Hmm. I wonder The word astronaut comes from the Greek words astronaut, which means star sailor. Astronauts can also be called cosmonauts and tau. A cosmonaut is the name for astronauts trained by the Russian Space Agency, and it means sailor of the universe. While a tau is a Chinese astronaut, which in China translates to space traveler, astronauts are trained by either nasa, the ESA, the CSA, or JAXA.