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# astronaut

«astronaut» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person trained to travel and work in space, in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an astronaut, astronauts)

### meaning for a pupil

A person trained to travel and work in space, in a spacecraft or on a space station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science, astronauts go into space in rockets; on the International Space Station they float because they are in free fall around the Earth (often called weightlessness). They wear spacesuits outside because there is no air to breathe in space. The first people on the Moon were the American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Russian astronauts are called cosmonauts. Phrases: "astronaut training", "become an astronaut", "spacewalk", "space station".

### examples

- The astronaut floated inside the space station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x1)
- Astronauts wear spacesuits when they go outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x2)
- Neil Armstrong was the first astronaut to walk on the Moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x3)
- I want to be an astronaut when I grow up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x4)
- Astronauts train for years before they fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x5)
- The astronauts ate dried food from packets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x6)
- From space, the astronaut could see the whole of Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x7)
- Six astronauts live on the space station at a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/#x8)

### note

Use "an": an astronaut. Spelling: astro + naut (Greek for "star sailor"). Myth: astronauts do not float because there is "no gravity"; gravity is still strong there, but they are falling around the Earth all the time. Russian: cosmonaut; Chinese: taikonaut.

### In the corpora

- [On 20 July 1969 the American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon in Apollo 11 while Michael Collins circled above.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/11/)
- [The astronauts collected Moon rocks and left a flag and footprints, which are still there because there is no wind on the Moon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/13/)
- [The Wall is many walls from many dynasties, and even China's astronaut Yang Liwei said he could not see it from orbit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/52-china-the-first-emperor-the-terracotta-army-and-the-great-wall/7/)
- [Scientists still bounce lasers off mirrors left on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts between 1969 and 1972.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/14/)
- [In 1971 the astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a falcon feather on the Moon, and they landed together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «astronaut» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astronaut/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.