This is dumb semantics. You can say they didn’t pilot the spacecraft, but neither did Shepard or Gagarin. You can say they were civilians, passengers, and meant for publicity. So Christa McAuliffe isn’t an astronaut now I guess.
The problem with cock-pollo 11 is not that vacuous celebrities and billionaire girlfriends get a title they don’t “deserve”. It’s that billionaire cunts can burn down the world and call it feminist at the same time they support a regime that actively takes rights from women.
Yeah, my only takeaway from this is that we really should bring back dueling so Musk and Bezos could settle their dispute in a way that might actually make the world a slightly better place
The simplest way of looking at it is this. If you are being paid to go, as part of your job, you are an astronaut. If you are paying to go you are a space tourist.
I’m of the opinion that we should strongly encourage all these rich assholes to go to space, making it the hot new trend, requiring larger and larger spacecraft to handle the demand.
Then one day, one will explode in space, killing a hundred Sociopathic Oligarchs at once.
And I’ll laugh and laugh…
Well yeah. Essentially she was a passenger not crew. Would you call yourself a sailor if you took a ride on a ferry?
Is there a term for thinking you ate the onion but it was actually real?
I’m sure people in first class on an airplane consider themselves pilots.
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Real astronauts take months to train, and don’t scream like idiots.
