What is a cosmonaut ?

{People} skilled to journey into area are referred to as cosmonauts. The one distinction is that in America the spaceman is referred to as an astronaut, whereas in Russia he is referred to as a cosmonaut.

Cosmonauts and astronauts work collectively on the Worldwide Area Station.

Cosmonauts are skilled and licensed solely by the RSA (Russian Area Company). Astronauts are skilled and licensed by NASA (American Area Company), JAXA (Japanese Area Company), ESA (European Area Company), or CSA (Chinese language Area Company).

FIRST Cosmonaut: YURI GAGARIN

Yuri Gagarin is the primary individual to carry out a area return in orbit at a top of 327 kilometers, which took 108 minutes in complete, on April 12, 1961, which modified the lifetime of humanity and paved the best way for area exploration.

He traveled for 108 minutes with the Vostok-1 spacecraft.