0 an astronaut (= a person who travels into space) from Russia --
1 a Soviet or Russian astronaut (= a person trained to go into space) --
Soyuz can carry up to three cosmonauts and provide life support for them for about 30 person days.
Tasks assigned to the two cosmonauts included hardware relocations, installations, retrievals, and deployments.
When the cosmonauts find the journal incomplete, they are forced to learn for themselves the fate of the author.
This required the two transferring cosmonauts to spacewalk from one vehicle to the other.
In a distant, but unspecified future, human cosmonauts discover the alien ship floating in space, a derelict.
Attention was paid to the cosmonauts' ability to sleep, and their vital signs were monitored during their sleep periods.
In 1966, he was selected for cosmonaut training.
Shonin was part of the original group of cosmonauts selected in 1960.
