Trivia of the day for December 7

Cosmonaut (Astronaut is ‘sailor of the stars’). The word is an anglicisation of the Russian word kosmonavt, one who works in space outside the Earth’s atmosphere, a space traveller, which derives from the Greek words kosmos, meaning “universe”, and nautes, meaning “sailor”.

Source: PaulsQuiz

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