astronautte

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astronautte

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Blend of astronaut + -ette (feminine suffix).

noun astronauttes · astronette

dated, rare A female astronaut. 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."

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@misc{astronautte_2026,
  title = {astronautte},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/astronautte},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}