Chinese term for a person who commands, pilots, or serves as a crew member of a spacecraft.
Member of the crew of a spacecraft.
1 I found the body of a lone taikonaut with his hand still clinging to the hatch release.
2 Vivian Wu as Lu, a Chinese taikonaut who is also a chemist and who has an affair with Mei Chen.
3 Early on, the nation's program relied on Russia, both for components and training for their would-be taikonauts .
4 Earlier this month, at the end of their third manned space mission, Chinese taikonauts released a tiny satellite into orbit.
5 On Monday, at a launch center in the middle of the Gobi desert, two taikonauts boarded a spacecraft and rocketed into space.
6 A second manned mission, Shenzhou 6, was launched from Jiuquan in 2005, this time sending up two taikonauts .
7 Three Chinese taikonauts lost their lives when the hamster tube in which they were moving was pierced by a micrometeorite and lost pressurization.
8 Earlier this year, in its fifth crewed space mission, three Chinese taikonauts docked with a prototype space lab and spent two weeks in orbit.
9 His assistant was Wang Fuhua, one of the first Chinese taikonauts to have reached Izzy during the Pioneer days of a few months back.
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