lunarnautn.
/ˈl(j)uːnənɔːt/ One who travels or has travelled to the moon.
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1965 Guardian 30 Aug. 12/1 The moon men (or lunarnauts, as they will doubtless come to be called) must be able to park their spacecraft.
1966 Electronics Weekly 27 July 29/2 (heading) Lunanauts will land with a reassuring ‘bump’.
1969 Scottish Daily Mail 13 Jan. 2/6 Lunarnaut Frank Borman warned today that space flights are ‘chancy’.
1971 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 3/3 The Command and Service Module orbit the Moon while the lunarnauts carry out experiments and walk on its surface.
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