Antedating of "Cosmonaut"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> (WWW.NEWSPAPERARCHIVE.COM)
> 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

Don't you think these just might be misdated?

Fred Shapiro


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