Space Traveler

Do you know that there are different names for space travelers,

In this session, I going to tell what they are called across the world.

1st 

Astronauts. (NASA) USA 🇺🇸

The word "Astronaut" means star sailor

(The first known use of the term "astronaut" in the modern sense was by Neil R. Jones in his 1930 short story "The Death's Head Meteor". The word itself had been known earlier; for example, in Percy Greg's 1880 book Across the Zodiac, "astronaut" referred to a spacecraft.) 

1st  American Astronaut travel space is "Alan Shepard" in 1961

May 05

Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space

May 5, 1961: The first American in space - Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Alan Shepard holds the pole of a US flag on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, ten years after he became the first American in space. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

There are 38 active astronauts active 11 under training (NASA)

2nd

Cosmonaut  (Roscosmos) Russia 🇷🇺 

cosmonaut, the Anglicised version of the Russian word "kosmonavt," means "sailor of the cosmos" 

The 1st cosmonaut in space is Yuri Gagarin & and he the 1st person to travel in space.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961. (Wikipedia).

Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a member of the Russian State Duma, engineer, and former cosmonaut. She is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.

3rd 

Taikonaut (China National Space Administration).

"Taikonaut" is an odd mixture, merging the Chinese word for space "taikong" with the Greek word for sailor, "naus."

Chinese officials do not particularly like this newly-coined word, and newspapers mostly stick to "yuhangyuan," meaning "space navigator."

However, "taikonaut" could eventually win out, because it is relatively easy for foreigners to pronounce, and because it alludes to terms for the profession coined by existing space powers.

"Yang Liwei" is the 1st person to travel to space from China 

The People's Liberation Army Astronaut Corps was established in 1998 for the selection of Shenzhou program astronauts. In 2003, Yang Liwei was launched aboard Shenzhou 5, becoming the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program.

4th

Vyomanaut (ISRO) INDIA 🇮🇳 

PM of India announces that India is going to send it is space traveler into space mission called Gaganyaan by 2021.

The word vyomanaut Its origins are from Sanskrit word "vyoman" meaning sky, so Vyomanaut crudely means one who travels in the sky(intended meaning is space).

Till now their names are not reviled they belong to IAF(Indian air force) and trained by the Russian space agency.

Soon we may get their names.

4th 

Afronauts (Zambia) 🇿🇲 

Afronauts means the space traveler from Africa 

The Afronauts. In 1964 a Zambian science teacher named Edward Makuka decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an aluminum rocket to put a woman, two cats, and a missionary into Space. First the moon, then Mars, using a catapult system.

Though the thoughts were interesting that never happened.

So that all for today hope you have known about the different space traveler.

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Source Wikipedia, history tv India today Quora& little astronaut