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[12 Oct 2007 | 2 Comments | 70 views]

The media has been feeding us with the angkasawan craze almost everyday until I become so fat that Atkins wouldn’t be able to help. I drive to office every morning, I see Rapid KL buses decal in angkasawan placards. Call me ignorant … but I wasn’t sure of the meaning and difference between astronaut and cosmonaut so I decided to wiki it through. In the US and any other English speaking nations, the term astronaut is used. In Russia, the same space traveller is referred as a cosmonaut.
In general, astronaut …

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