lunarnaut

plural lunarnauts

1. Someone who travels to the Moon.

   Still, the experience was poisoned for me by having to watch Richard Nixon smirking as he babbled to the lunar-nauts by some closed-circuit link.

   2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 205

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   Kanashima returns to Japan and, as the space race develops over the years, figures out that the U.S. and Russia are bogged down by the problem of how to get the lunarnaut back to earth.

   1965, ‘The Kamikosmonaut’, Time, 26 Feb 2006

   The moon's poles are the only spots in permanent sunshine (days and nights of moon last 14 earth days), which means that the lunarnauts’ solar panels could provide a permanent power supply.

   2006 December 7, Tim Radford, The Guardian

   Synonyms: lunanaut, moonnaut