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What is an astronaut?

What is an astronaut? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
    1. An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut and taikonaut.
  2. (Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and his/her adopted home country.
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We salute his many accomplishments as an astronaut and as a husband and father.
What is an astronaut feeling as he's sitting on the rocket launch pad strapped into his pod at the brink of takeoff?
Jarvis was followed by former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who showed a video of his 1969 moonwalk and urged NASA to start sending citizens into space.
Apollo Telescope Mount front end at the moment of film retrieval by astronaut.
He will live and work aboard the international space station along with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut.
Ever since I was a small child I wanted to be an astronaut, or a cowboy, or a choo-choo train.

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