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cosmonautic, -ical, a.|ˌkɒzməʊˈnɔːtɪk, -ɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -ic, -ical.]
Of or pertaining to space travel or cosmonauts.
1947W. Ley Rockets & Space Travel (1948) xii. 285 He [sc. von Pirquet]..called it the ‘cosmonautic paradox’. 1950Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. IX. 206 Only such techniques can show any reasonable prospects of making return voyages to the planets practicable. Von Pirquet himself has expressed this in what he calls ‘The Cosmonautical Paradoxon’. 1961Life 21 Apr. 35 Some cosmonautical questions. Ibid. 18 Aug. 43 (caption) Cosmonautical embrace.
So cosmoˈnautics, the science of travel in space; astronautics.
1950Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. IX. 154 Interstellar Rockets with Atomic Fuel. This, of course, is the great ideal of cosmonautics. 1965Glasstone Sourcebk. Space Sciences i. 24 In Russia the terms ‘cosmonautics’ and ‘cosmonaut’ are now in general use, whereas ‘astronautics’ and ‘astronaut’ are preferred in the United States. 1967New Scientist 9 Feb. 325/1 Russian scientists—in the tradition of Ziolkowsky, the founder of Soviet cosmonautics—have spoken of the importance of manned space-stations in Earth-orbit. |