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> No astronauts or humans were on board the maiden flight, which completed the initial link to the ISS about 5:51 a.m. Eastern time.

Is there a difference?

First astronauts where animals. https://www.space.com/17764-laika-first-animals-in-space.htm...

I'm personally also not sure if space tourists would be referred to as "astronauts" (which might only be the crew).

All astronauts are humans but not all humans are astronauts.

I believe that national origin can make a human a cosmonaut, taikonaut, or spationaut. Are those also astronauts? Not sure.

So the rumours about nasa hiding the aliens were true ...

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