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Space cadets, space men, or space marines?

• ChuckMcM 7y ago
  Well when you are attending the Space Academy (which should probably be named after one of the Mercury 7 Astronauts who served in the Air Force {cough, cough, Cooper}) you would be a Space Cadet. Once you graduated you would be a 'Spacer' perhaps. I figure at this point a new service isn't going to call their members '*-men' since they will be an integrated group. They could just call them 'Astronauts' and distinguish them as civilian or military in context. A friend suggested 'Space Person' but that doesn't really roll off the tongue. Then there is 'Space Technician' or 'Person of Space' or 'Space Cast' or 'Spaceist'. Not an easy choice.
  • bdamm 7y ago
    Likely to be a lot more ground operators than spacemen, and astronauts is reserved for those who have actually flown in space.