What is the difference between astronaut and taikonaut?
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An ASTRONAUT is an AMERICAN space traveler, but colloquially, used to refer all (countries) space travelers.
The word is coined from ancient Greek.
A TAIKONAUT is a person who travels in space for the Chinese space program, is a Chinese astronaut.
The word is coined from Mandarin.
Astronaut was originally used to refer to space crews from the United States of America but is now a general term used by many different countries. Russian space crew are called cosmonauts, Chinese space crew are often called taikonauts, and European space crew are called spationauts.