cosmonaut
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President Putin described it as a "real school of bravery" which helped train numerous military commanders, cosmonauts and pilots.
From BBC
On Dec. 14, as the cosmonauts were preparing to leave the station’s airlock to perform a spacewalk, ground controllers noticed a leak of coolant spraying uncontrollably into space.
From Washington Post
The micrometeoroid strike and the leaking coolant were discovered by Roscosmos cosmonauts preparing to do a spacewalk.
From Washington Times
The incident has disrupted Russia's ISS activities, forcing a suspension of spacewalks by its cosmonauts as officials focus on the leaky capsule, which serves as a lifeboat for the crew.
From Reuters
The video showed images of Soviet cosmonauts, writers such as Fyodor Dostoevsky and leaders such as Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.
From Reuters
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