Arnaldo Tamayo MÃ©ndez, the first Latino with this job, now sits in the Cuban legislature.
Arnaldo Tamayo MÃ©ndez, the first Latino with this job, now sits in the Cuban legislature. Oneman with this occupation apocryphally threw his drink at Brezhnev, angry about the death ofanother, Vladimir Komarov. Khrushchev claimed that one person "didn't see any god" while doingthis job, and Valentina Tereshkova was the (*) first woman with this occupation. Alexey Leonov, a manwith this job, was the first to conduct an EVA. Before heading to Baikonur, people train for this job at StarCity. They were the primary employees of the Soyuz and Vostok Programs, and staffed the station Mir. For10 points, name this profession, of which Yuri Gagarin was the first, the heroes of the Space Race.
Arnaldo Tamayo MÃ©ndez, the first Latino with this job, now sits in the Cuban legislature.
cosmonauts [or astronauts of the Russian/Soviet Space Program; or kosmonavty; accept equivalents]