Astronaut Or Space Participant????

Many bloggers out there write bout their opinion about this matter...most of them get angry when NASA approved Sheikh Muszaphar as only a Space Participant...And most of the Anti-Government laugh like a devil...Now it's time for me to laugh at them(Anti-Government).I have all the explaination and juz read it....

Wikipedia said...

An astronaut or cosmonaut (Russian: космона́вт IPA: [kəsmʌˈnaft]) is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.While generally reserved for professional space travelers, the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.

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Wikipedia also said...

in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut. With the rise of space tourism, NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency agreed to use the term "spaceflight participant" to distinguish those space travelers from astronauts on missions coordinated by those two agencies.

Taken at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonaut


Now....according to The Star Online...Alexander Karchava said....

“Russia does not see him as a mere passenger to the International Space Station (ISS). He is a researcher. The experiments he will carry out were discussed between Russia and Malaysia. “We don’t consider him as a space tourist but a full-fledge cosmonaut,” he said in an interview at the Russian embassy here.

and now...let LeoFantasia talk...

Astronaut is a term use by NASA and Cosmonaut is a term use by Russia.The Russian has already approve Dr Sheikh Mushaphar as an Cosmonaut but NASA approved him as a Space Participant.By looking at the Wikipedia definition...

"the term is sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists."

"in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut. With the rise of space tourism, NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency agreed to use the term "spaceflight participant" to distinguish those space travelers from astronauts on missions coordinated by those two agencies."

Here..you can can see cleary where Dr. Sheikh is an Astronaut or Cosmonaut...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....in 2004 NASA and RFSA agreed to use Space Participant which have the same meaning to Comercial Astronaut.But he's not a profesional Astronaut yet...but still...he's an Astronaut....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......Oh Yeah...!!!!...

For the bloggers out there who is still denying, Tell me now...Who's ur Daddy?????????