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Listen to native speakers pronounce “cosmonaut” as a verb in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
What's happened of course is this: according to a statement released by the Soviet Union's TASS News Service on April 12, 1961, "After the successful completion of the planned investigationsand of the flight program the Soviet spaceship Vostok made a safe landing at the predetermined place. The pilot cosmonaut Major Gagarin made the following statement, 'I beg to reportto the party, to the government, and to Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev personally that the landing was normal, that I am feeling well, and have sustained no injuries or disturbances'."