That’s not a good analogy though. Cosmonaut isn’t just a translated term of astronaut. It’s different on purpose.
Just a PhD is specifically different from MD, even though both are doctors.
No their jobs aren’t as different, but it’s very much a definite prescriptive difference, one are people who went to space from the USSR/Russia, astronauts are American/European and Chinese spacefarers are taikonauts.
They’re exactly zero Soviet Astronauts.
They are called Cosmonauts.
There are not doctors in Germany either. Not were there any academics in the whole of Russia.
They’re called arzt. or Doktor. That’s not helpful, though.
That’s not a good analogy though. Cosmonaut isn’t just a translated term of astronaut. It’s different on purpose.
Just a PhD is specifically different from MD, even though both are doctors.
No their jobs aren’t as different, but it’s very much a definite prescriptive difference, one are people who went to space from the USSR/Russia, astronauts are American/European and Chinese spacefarers are taikonauts.
Dangit! Cosmonaut kept popping up into my head but I couldn’t be bothered to look up the difference.
Just to be double extra, Chinese astronauts are tiakonaughts.
Seriously? That’s cool, did not know about all these different translations/words etc. I’ve got to look into this, thanks!
Taikonauts*