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    Astronaut (redirect from Cosmonaut)
    fielded by Russia or the Soviet Union are typically known instead as cosmonauts (from the Russian "kosmos" (космос), meaning "space", also borrowed from...
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  • The Lost Cosmonauts or Phantom Cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory, which alleges that Soviet and Russian space authorities have concealed the...
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    This is a list of cosmonauts who have taken part in the missions of the Soviet space program and the Russian Federal Space Agency, including ethnic Russians...
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  • spacecraft. Cosmonaut may also refer to: Cosmonaut (film), a 2009 Italian coming-of-age film The Cosmonaut, a 2013 Spanish science fiction film Cosmonauts Sea...
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    8745; 38.115 The Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC; Russian: Центр подготовки космонавтов имени Ю....
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    and cosmonaut. In October 1964, he commanded Voskhod 1, the first spaceflight to carry more than one crew member. He became the first Soviet cosmonaut to...
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    The Cosmonaut (El Cosmonauta) is a Spanish science-fiction film, directed by Nicolás Alcalá and produced by Carola Rodríguez and Bruno Teixidor. It premiered...
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    Alexander Grebenkin (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Гребёнкин; born 15 July 1982) is a Russian cosmonaut currently on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Before joining the cosmonaut corps, he served in the technical and...
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    Kirill Peskov (category Russian cosmonauts)
    1990) is a Russian cosmonaut who is planned to fly on the SpaceX Crew-10 mission in February 2025. In 2018, he was selected as a cosmonaut of Roscosmos Group...
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    into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became...
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    Aleksandr Gorbunov (category Russian cosmonauts)
    (Russian: Александр Владимирович Горбунов; born 24 May 1990) is a Russian cosmonaut. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Gorbunov studied engineering at the Moscow Aviation...
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    The Cosmonauts Sea (Russian: Море Космонавтов, More Kosmonavtov; sometimes misspelled Cosmonaut Sea) was a proposed sea name as part of the Southern Ocean...
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    The Cosmonaut Corps (‹See Tfd›Russian: Отряд космонавтов) is a unit of the Russia's Roscosmos state corporation that selects, trains, and provides cosmonauts...
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  • a rank. Cosmonauts are professional space travellers from Russia. After initial training, cosmonauts are assigned as either a test cosmonaut (Russian:...
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    rather than for any immediate heroic activity.[citation needed] All Soviet cosmonauts, starting from Yuri Gagarin, as well as foreign citizens from non-capitalist...
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    Astronaut/Cosmonaut is a mural by the French street artist Ash in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. It was painted in 2007 and measures 22x14 m. It is...
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  • Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut (Japanese: 月とライカと吸血姫(ノスフェラトゥ), Hepburn: Tsuki to Raika to Nosuferatu, lit. "The Moon, Laika, and the Nosferatu") is a Japanese...
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    Rakesh Sharma (category Salyut program cosmonauts)
    of squadron leader. He was selected on 20 September 1982 to become a cosmonaut and go into space as part of a joint programme between the Indian Air...
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    is an out-of-service triple-barreled Soviet combination gun carried by cosmonauts on space missions. It was intended as a survival aid to be used after...
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    Valentina Tereshkova (category Russian cosmonauts)
    1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok...
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    Aleksey Ovchinin (category Russian cosmonauts)
    ɐfˈtɕinʲɪn]; born 28 September 1971) is a Russian Air Force Major and cosmonaut, who was selected in 2006. Ovchinin made his first spaceflight in 2016...
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    Cosmonautics Day (Russian: День Космона́втики, romanized: Den' Kosmonávtiki) is an anniversary celebrated in Russia and some other post-Soviet states on...
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    Yuri Gagarin (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first...
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    Aleksandr Kaleri (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Юрьевич Калери; born in Jūrmala, Latvia on 13 May 1956) is a former Russian cosmonaut and veteran of extended stays on the Mir Space Station and the International...
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  • Олег Григорьевич Макаров; 6 January 1933 – 28 May 2003) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Makarov was born in Udomlya, Tver Oblast, USSR. He graduated from Bauman...
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    Sergei Krikalev (category Soviet cosmonauts)
    1958) is a Russian mechanical engineer and former cosmonaut and head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. As a prominent rocket scientist, he...
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    Alexei Leonov (category Russian cosmonauts)
    Arkhipovich Leonov (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became...
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  • Васи́льевич Ма́лышев; 27 August 1941 – 8 November 1999) was a Soviet cosmonaut who served on the Soyuz T-2 (5–9 June 1980) and Soyuz T-11 (3–11 April...
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    1935), former Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Dezhurov (born 1962), Russian former cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov (born 1942), former cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov...
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    born 11 November 1946) is a former Soviet and Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz...
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