taikonauts
China's space travelers
Taikonauts are Chinese astronauts—specifically, those who travel to space as part of China's national space program.
The term combines the Chinese word for space (太空, tàikōng) with the Greek suffix -naut for sailor.
It parallels astronaut (American) and cosmonaut (Russian), distinguishing participants by their space program's national origin: China's taikonauts completed their first spacewalk in 2008.
Curved celestial path
- launchSet into motion
- spacewalkVenturing outside a spacecraft
- dockingConnecting to a port
- reentryComing back in
capsule · mission · space station · EVA · microgravity · payload · spacecraft · rocket
East Asian superpower
- Long MarchChinese communist military retreat
- BeijingChina's seat of government
- national prideEsteem for one's country
- MandarinHigh-ranking government official
state media · CCTV · flag · ceremony · heroic · propaganda · achievement
Chosen item or items
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
- engineerTechnical design professional
- scientistOne who studies nature
crew · commander · rookie · veteran · candidate · physical fitness · centrifuge · simulation
orbit
Curved celestial path
reentry · capsule · mission · space station · EVA · microgravity · payload · spacecraft · rocket · liftoff
China
East Asian superpower
- Long MarchChinese communist military retreat
- BeijingChina's seat of government
- national prideEsteem for one's country
Mandarin · state media · CCTV · flag · ceremony · heroic · propaganda · achievement
selection
Chosen item or items
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
- engineerTechnical design professional
scientist · crew · commander · rookie · veteran · candidate · physical fitness · centrifuge · simulation · quarantine
- astronautscosmonauts, spaceman, spacewalker, moonwalker, Neil Armstrong
- Space Programsrocket launch, satellite launch, launch vehicles, space station, lunar mission
- Space PioneersNeil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, Alan Shepard
- space policymilitarization, liability limits, international law, space weapons, satellite weapons
taikonautsground crew
Aircraft support personnel
mission control · earthlings · flight controllers · civilians · terrestrials