Antedating of "Cosmonaut"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

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>Sheboygan Press - 6/3/1955
>...1963 by astronaut Gordon Cooper. A Russian COSMONAUT, Valeri Bykovsky,
>holds the record.....once a day and White three times. Soviet COSMONAUT Valery
>Bykovsky holds the present.....have sought solutions to the problems.
>COSMONAUT
>Alexi Leonov, the only previous man.....But the Soviets have not yet
>maneuvered a COSMONAUT craft or conducted rendezvous..
>Sheboygan, Wisconsin Friday, June 03, 1955  833 k
>
>Sheboygan Press - 6/4/1955
>...in the void as Alexei Leonov, the Soviet COSMONAUT who tumbled in space
>for 10 minutes..
>Sheboygan, Wisconsin Saturday, June 04, 1955  790 k
>
>Sheboygan Press - 6/10/1955
>...The firw: man ever in space, Soviet COSMONAUT Yuri Gagarin, sent the
>astronauts a..
>Sheboygan, Wisconsin Friday, June 10, 1955  847 k

Something is a little bit wrong here. Gagarin was the first one up, in
1961, right?

-- Doug Wilson