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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

What is a Taikonaut?

Taikonaut is a term used for a Chinese Astronaut.

Wikipedia: The term taikonaut is used by some English-language news media organizations for professional space travellers from China. it as "a hybrid of the Chinese term taikong (space) and the Greek naut (traveller), or astronaut"; the term became more common in 2003. In 2003, China had sent its first astronaut Yang Liwei aboard Shenzhou 5 spacecraft.

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