How to pronounce“cosmonauts”in English

When one of their cosmonauts was killed in a fire in a training accident, we knew nothing about it, in fact for decades.

And the cosmonauts, even though they were fighter pilots themselves, there was an element in which, a bit like the wider Soviet society,

American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts had seen earth from space many times before.

The Soviet cosmonauts had used it.

and this secret group of 20 younger cosmonauts, all serving military pilots, who are unknown, no fanfare, no press, not even their families

One of the conditions of these cosmonauts, as they were called, that were picked out of this very rigorous selection process for training

And one of the fellow cosmonauts comes up to him, a good friend, and says, hey, listen, you now, you're number two.

And get helped up by the other cosmonauts, give us a thumbs up, and overall, was doing fine.

The cosmonauts are really.

You've got a duel between the first two cosmonauts.

You talked a lot about your interaction with the cosmonauts, and learning how to fly a Soyuz spacecraft, but also

But I have a lot of respect for the cosmonauts and the people I've worked in the space program with.

And I was crewed up with two Russian cosmonauts, Aleksey and Oleg.

astronauts, or cosmonauts.

of fact, the first Cosmonauts flown in space some of them weren't even pilots.

it with the Soviet Union's approach where the Cosmonauts were really more like passengers in many ways.

And you talked about these 20 cosmonauts that are then being whittled down.

Curiosities you know this is the first time we had these uh ex Soviet cosmonauts in Houston uh you know that were going to train with us and one of

exploring out of space that we might actually find where Heaven Was and the Russian cosmonauts were supposed to report back as to whether God existed

How did that impact the lives of the astronauts versus the cosmonauts?

And then the Russians, the psychologists sent up some MP3 files to the cosmonauts that were sounds of Earth, like rain, jungle sounds and birds

And talking a little bit about your-- so you talk at length about your experiences with your fellow astronauts and cosmonauts.

We want Japanese astronauts, and we want Russian astronauts-- which would be called cosmonauts, of course-- and many other countries, to join us

I've interviewed a couple of cosmonauts who had spent six month together on Mir.

the great cynical observation that we started exploring out of space that we might actually find where Heaven Was and the Russian cosmonauts were supposed to

effort and had some success in learning English um those were the folks we trusted you know all of the astronauts and the cosmonauts uh we've all achieved

But before that, we mentioned that the US astronauts had this enormous sense of celebrity, whereas the cosmonauts were completely anonymous.

There was some serious depression going on at some of the astronauts and cosmonauts have been

just fallen and you know pretty soon in in '92 or '93 we started working with the Russians you know there was a weird thing we had two cosmonauts come over uh