what is difference between Astronaut & Cosmonaut?

Answer 1

Astronaut are America
Cosmonaut are Russian

Same thing different translation

Answer 2

Difference Between Astronaut And Cosmonaut

Answer 3

Astronaut american word 4 anyoe goin 2 space n Cosmonaut is Russian .

Answer 4

Astronaut is the word used by NASA or in America for Humans sent for Space Reseach aboard Space crafts and Cosmonaut is used for similar reason by Russian Space Agency

Answer 5

There's no difference, both mean the same. The word cosmonaut is used by the Russians, other people call astronaut.

Answer 6

both are the same. They are called as astronauts in the US and the Russians call cosmonauts

Answer 7

Astronauts are americans. Cosmonauts are russians.

Answer 8

An astronaut, cosmonaut (Russian: космона́вт), spationaut (French) or taikonaut (Chinese: 太空人; pinyin: tàikōng rén) is a person who travels into space, or who makes a career of doing so.

The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary (see edge of space). In the United States, people who travel above an altitude of 80 kilometres (50 miles) are designated as astronauts. The FAI defines spaceflight as over 100 kilometres (62 miles). As of September 9, 2006, a total of 454 humans have reached space according to the U.S. definition, 448 people qualify under the FAI definition, while 444 people have reached Earth orbit or beyond.[citation needed] 24 astronauts have completely left the Earth's Orbit. These individuals have spent over 29,000 crew-days (or a cumulative total of over 77 years) in space including over 100 crew-days of spacewalks.[1] Astronauts from 37 countries have gone into space. The U.S. awards astronaut wings to those who fly into space on their rockets.

cosmonaut
COSMONAUT on the Web:

* An astronaut from the former Soviet Union or present day Russia.
astronaut: a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"

Answer 9

There really is no difference except that "astronaut" is an American term and "cosmonaut" (Ru. космонавт) is a Russian term. Other countries call their space travelers different things. The French term, for example, is "spationaut" while the Chinese is taikong ren (太空人) translated to English as "taikonaut."

Answer 10

Both are the same but belong to different nationalities.
Astronaut - those belonging to USA and most other NATO countries
Cosmonaut - those belonging to Russia, countries of ex-Soviet and even countries like India
Taikonaut - those belonging to China