'Astronaut’ means 'star sailor.' NASA chose it in 1958 over 'cosmonaut,' or 'universe sailor.' But "Why 'astronaut' won out," says a NASA Johnson Space Center historian, "is a mystery." The reason we chose that term for our space travelers "Was never recorded in NASA’s own historical documents."
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