Cub Driver schrieb:

Nonsense. In Germany, astronauts are called either "Astronauten" or
"Raumfahrer" and that wouldn't change if they were launched by a
German rocket.

That's a relief! Based on my devoted study of the language, traveling
from gasthaus to gasthaus in 1958, I would have rendered it
Fernfahrter.

g No, "fahren" applies to vehicles, ships, airships, but not to
planes and rockets.

(By the way, I thought Germans were rather rude to American tourists,
too.

Can´t comment on this (since I try to be rude to no one)... but..

Especially in the post office.)

.... that used to be normal in post offices - today they tend to ignore
the customer or pretend to be braindead. Well, some are.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

Gruss, Roman