Burt Rutan

By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful stuff happened in 10 to 15 years. About that time, there should have been enormous initiatives to make it affordable for people to fly in space, not just a handful of trained NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts.

American Scientist

Roman Romanenko

All children of cosmonauts went to one school. We all lived in the same neighborhood, Star City, and all of us, children of cosmonauts, were in the center of attention from the teachers and general inhabitants of the Star City, and so it was difficult in that respect.

Russian Astronaut

Sarah Brightman

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

English Musician

Sergey Volkov

When I was a child, and I was at our school, everybody's parents were involved in space program. In every class, we have several kids whose fathers were flown cosmonauts or who prepared for the flight.

Esther Dyson

Since I was 18, I have swum for 50 minutes every day, missing less than one day a year except for a two-week stint when I was training as a cosmonaut in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in March 2009.

American Businesswoman

William S. Burroughs

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

American Writer

Kevin A. Ford

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

American Astronaut

Gherman Titov

We thought our careers as cosmonauts - we were young then - would end with a flight to Mars. But, you see, life has made some course corrections.

Wally Funk

I took probably about six or seven different tests throughout the U.S. Then I went to Russia and took the cosmonaut tests. I beat all the guys.

Valentina Tereshkova

Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.

Used specifically for spacefarers from Russia, as 'astronaut' is for the American equivalent.

Russian Spacefarer

'Cosmonaut' became popular during the space race of the 20th century.

Historical Term

Cosmonauts are celebrated figures in Russian history and culture.

Cultural Icon

 animals all of nature around us we all get to experience this together yeah it's really amazing and you know the last few months there's been a lot of issues going on and this is something that we can all share and it can be a positive thing the space station is like that when I was in space I was with Russian cosmonauts in an

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 I was privileged to meet a lot of cosmonauts in Space City and other places in Russia. And interestingly, as I think back, they were the first true environmentalists. They were filled with a kind of pioneering passion,