The use of the word “astronaut” or “cosmonaut” is ideologically motivated.

Astronaut is an American term for a star traveller who, in a manner similar to that of the American settlers, lands on a star, plants his flag on it and in this way indicates that he has conquered it.

The meaning of the Russian word cosmonaut is traveller in the universe. It comes from Russian cosmist thinking, which for its basic doctrine used the thesis that they had had enough of the dilemma “does God exist or not?” That is why cosmism proposes: let us go and look into the depths of the universe with spaceships to see if it is possible that God exists.

Meanwhile, an anarchocosmist is a member of an association of autonomous space explorers!