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astronaut

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astronaut

Noun

∙ A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
- ∙ An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut and taikonaut.
∙ A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and his/her adopted home country. Hong Kong

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