spaceman

Other forms: spacemen

Definitions of spaceman

1. noun

   a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
   synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut

   examples:

   Neil Armstrong

   United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)

   Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

   Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968)

   John Herschel Glenn Jr.

   made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)

   Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.

   astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)

   Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova

   Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937)

   types:

   spacewalker

   an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space

   type of:

   traveler, traveller

   a person who changes location