Meaning of astronautte | Babel Free

Definitions

A female astronaut.

dated, rare

Examples

“In 1960 Jerrie Cobb was the first woman chosen (from a dozen tested) to qualify⟳ for NASA's new astronaut program⟳. Newspapers called her an "astronautte," and "America's answer⟳ to the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova."”

“Administrators also argued that hundreds of women would have⟳ to be more rigorously tested to determine⟳ if women were capable of sustaining sustaining spaceflight. In response, the press⟳ rallied in support⟳ of the FLATS, dubbing them astronauttes, astronettes, and astronautrixes.”

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