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#60
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Phil Stooke
on 03 Sep, 2016 21:03
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"Since the first man in space was a COSMONAUT then surely that should be the universal term for a space flier if you wish to impose such a term."
The first images of the far side of the Moon were taken by Luna 3 in October 1959, before anybody had flown in space. Soviet scientists compiled the first maps of the far side from the new images and gave names to some features. One was Mare Moscoviense, the 'Sea of Moscow'. And on its south side they named an indentation Zaliv Astronavtov, the 'Bay of Astronauts'. (Source: Atlas of the Reverse Side of the Moon, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1960).
So the Russians themselves were using the term Astronaut before Gagarin. Not that I think it alone should be used, but there's no justification for imposing a 'universal term' based on a dubious notion of first usage.
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#61
by
Liss
on 03 Sep, 2016 21:35
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Up to October 1960, official term was indeed 'astronaut', changed to 'cosmonaut' before April 1961 to be different from the American one.
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#62
by
plutogno
on 04 Sep, 2016 06:10
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#63
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 04 Sep, 2016 07:14
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#64
by
Phillip Clark
on 04 Sep, 2016 07:34
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I like using Taikonauts. There's even a website that promotes the name.
http://www.go-taikonauts.com/en/
True, but "taikonaut" is still an unofficial made-up name. The word hangtianyuan has been used by the Chinese specifically for Chinese cosmonauts.
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#65
by
zubenelgenubi
on 16 Oct, 2016 15:35
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Follow-up on the Shenzhou-11 press conferences:
Jing Haipeng is back as commander.
The left seat will be filled by Chen Dong.
(Image file originally provided by ace5, assumedly screen captured from the 1st press conference.)
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#66
by
hal9000
on 17 Oct, 2016 09:17
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Any word who the Backup crew are?
I think we have known that on the previous missions.
BTW: Jing Haipeng has been on 50% of the manned missions undertaken by China! That's a record that is unlikely to be matched (maybe apart from the next country to start a manned space program....)
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#67
by
ZachS09
on 18 Oct, 2016 17:01
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Any word who the Backup crew are?
I think we have known that on the previous missions.
BTW: Jing Haipeng has been on 50% of the manned missions undertaken by China! That's a record that is unlikely to be matched (maybe apart from the next country to start a manned space program....)
No backup crew was given, but I would hypothesize Zhang Xiaoguang as backup Commander and Cai Xuzhe as backup Flight Engineer.
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#68
by
tonyq
on 21 Oct, 2016 15:01
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No backup crew was given, but I would hypothesize Zhang Xiaoguang as backup Commander and Cai Xuzhe as backup Flight Engineer.
In many ways, it doesn't really matter who the back-up crew were, other than as a point of curiousity! We now have ample evidence that there is no pattern to Chinese crew selections, other than that they start with a blank canvas for each mission, and select a crew, from those available. The requirement to have a veteran on each flight, seems to be holding, but being a back-up for a 'one-off' mission like this, doesn't mean much. The prime and back-ups, still go back in the mix, for the next round of assignments!
SZ-10 was an exception, as everything was planned in parallel with SZ-9, and it was always anticipated that both crews would fly.
BTW, I suspect that your crew is conjecture, rather than a hypothesis.
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#69
by
Satori
on 19 Nov, 2016 17:16
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#70
by
SMS
on 07 Dec, 2016 18:34
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#71
by
Phillip Clark
on 08 Dec, 2016 07:12
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Thank you for the video link SMS, but please bear in mind that the majority of people on here cannot understand Chinese. It would help if you explained who the lady is in the video - I am sure that we all recognised her from live TV coverage of flights, being in the control cenre - and what her role is at the control centre, etc please.
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#72
by
Olaf
on 08 Dec, 2016 07:30
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#73
by
SMS
on 27 Feb, 2017 18:41
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#74
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 01 Mar, 2017 07:33
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Seems like some kind of "hand pressing into clay" ceremony. Anybody want to put names to the pictures?
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#75
by
Olaf
on 07 Aug, 2017 15:07
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#76
by
Olaf
on 21 Aug, 2017 15:46
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#77
by
SMS
on 22 Aug, 2017 20:03
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#78
by
ZachS09
on 22 Aug, 2017 22:57
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I can identify the following:
BOTTOM ROW (left to right)
Chen Dong
Wang Yaping
Liu Wang
Liu Boming
Samantha Cristoforetti
Yang Liwei
[Unknown] (from China)
Matthias Maurer
[Unknown] (from ESA)
[Unknown] (from ESA)
Ye Guangfu
Zhang Xiaoguang
The other 11 taikonauts in the top row are unrecognizable to me. Who knows? Maybe they might consist of the third selection of taikonauts.
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#79
by
Olaf
on 23 Aug, 2017 07:32
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There 16 taikonauts took part.
I assume that this were the eight flown taikonauts from the 1998 group and the seven taikonauts from the 2010 group plus one unknown taikonaut(maybe one of the unflown taikonauts from the 1998 group).
Maybe someone can identify him.
