An astronaut is a "star-sailor". "Astronaut" comes from the Greek words "astron" meaning "star" and "nautes" meaning "sailor". The Americans invented the name. The Russians had "cosmonauts", not "astronauts". "Kosmos" is ancient Greek for the universe or outer space. So a cosmonaut is a "space-sailor".
One dreams of the stars and the other of the space, but in the end they do exactly the same thing.
What Dog Knows, P116
Sylvia Vanden Heede, illustrated by Marije Tolman
ISBN 978-1-776570-37-9
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