Sentence examples for cosmonaut from inspiring English sources

And my grandfather said: "No! She's going to look like a cosmonaut".

For Trocchi, using heroin was the route to creating a new form of human being; he described himself as "a cosmonaut of inner space", exploring unknown frontiers on behalf of the rest of mankind.

Fifty years have elapsed since a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, lit the blue touchpaper on the era of manned spaceflight.

Valeri Polyakov, a Russian cosmonaut, spent 438 days in space in 1994 and 1995.

None will be kicked out by popular vote (indeed, doing so in space would cause them to explode).Thumb-twiddling in free-fallThe experiment's popularity is all the more bizarre given that Dr Lebedev is far from the only cosmonaut whom space has driven a bit cranky.

Mr Cameron was reduced to talking up Russia's willingness to review a ban on British beef dating back to the 1990s; Mr Medvedev hailed the unveiling of a statue of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in London.

Ronald Garan, an American cosmonaut who is devoutly Catholic, brought tiny fragments of the remains of Therese of Lisieux, a French saint, up to the giant laboratory.

On April 12th 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, when little was known about the effects spaceflight would have on him.

When he was four, she went to work in Libya, like thousands of other Macedonians, and took him with her.That was a brief episode in a childhood in which the young Gruevski dreamt of being a doctor, a footballer or a cosmonaut.

A brief history of manned spaceflightFIFTY years have elapsed since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin lit the blue touchpaper on the era of manned spaceflight.

It was thrown together in response to Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, which was launched by the Soviet Union in October 1957, and it was given extra impetus by the flight of the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, in April 1961.That led to the space race, and NASA’s finest hour.