The Chinese have sent again 3 Men in the Moon, the Shenzhou VII . Perhaps you have already noticed, the term sometimes speak of an astronaut, cosmonaut, astronaut and cosmonaut of. Why?
Each of these words has the same meaning, the difference is the nationality of the person traveling in space.
Thus, astronaut (Greek astron meaning "star" and boatmen, "browser") relates to space travelers as European Americans.
Cosmonauts are Russian (Greek kosmos meaning "universe").
The term astronaut is a hybrid word, coming from both Latin spatium meaning "space", and Greek nauts "browser." The term first appeared when the French wanted to have autonomy in space. Since the term is used in France to talk about a man who goes into space.
The term astronaut comes from Chinese literally means "man of great emptiness" (Taikong of "emptiness" and rén "man").
To write this article I am greatly inspired by Wikipedia ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaute ).
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