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...