How to Use cosmonaut in a Sentence

cosmonaut

noun
  • Peresild will star as a surgeon who has to save a cosmonaut at the space station.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Samokutyaev joined the cosmonaut corps in 2003.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 18 June 2026
  • Novitskiy, who spent more than six months aboard the space station, is to star as the ailing cosmonaut in the movie.
    — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In the series, cosmonauts are controlled by the system.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The plant is named after the Soviet cosmonaut who was the first person in space.
    — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Normally, the spacecraft name represents the place where the cosmonauts have grown up or where they were born.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In each case, a professional cosmonaut will be in charge of the Soyuz capsule.
    — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 28 May 2021
  • Soviet cosmonaut Ghermon Titov holds the record for the youngest to fly in space.
    — Marcia Dunn, Chron, 15 July 2021
  • That’s still well short of the world record for a stint in space, set by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The legendary Soviet cosmonaut who became the first person to walk in space.
    — Bernard McGhee, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2019
  • In theory, this means cockroach cosmonauts may not actually be all that far-fetched.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • In the middle window stands Prince, a haloed cosmonaut looking into the distance.
    — Minna Zhou, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2017
  • There's also an inescapable sense of cosmonauts being forced to live on the edge far more than their astronaut counterparts.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 May 2026
  • The woman turned out to be Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut.
    — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • The movie is about a Russian doctor who launches to the ISS to save the life of a cosmonaut.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The new documentary about Russia's doomed canine cosmonaut hurts the soul—and turns the stomach.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The current record for the longest continuous stay in space is held by the cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov.
    — David W. Brown, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2022
  • These cosmonauts and engineers became superstars and because of that, they were kept under careful watch.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Only one of the three — cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov — was alive at the time of Apollo 11.
    — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2019
  • The two cosmonauts are midway through a yearlong stay aboard the space station while O'Hara is wrapping up a more typical six-month tour.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • At the time, the whole world had its eyes on the stars; earlier that spring, a Soviet cosmonaut had beaten the Americans to space.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 29 May 2020
  • The package also has a tape of a female cosmonaut from November of 1967.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Alice and Jo are both able to hear the plea for help from the female cosmonaut, and Alice identifies her as the Valya, both alive and dead.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The overall record is 82 hours, 22 minutes, held by cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev will remain there with him.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The circular blue and white emblem depicts the cosmonaut, who in 1965 led the world's first mission to perform a spacewalk.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Irina’s head is spinning, but there’s no convincing former cosmonaut Lenya Polivanov not to do this.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • The failure of the second launch sealed the Soviet's fate in the moon race and raised the question if a Soviet cosmonaut would ever walk on the moon.
    — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Russian cosmonauts must pressurize the tunnel to access the Progress spacecraft that dock there and unload and stow cargo on the vehicles.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 June 2026
  • On April 12 of that year, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space .
    — Tariq Malik Space.com Managing Editor, Fox News, 29 May 2017

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