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
Muskrat will just chicken out like he did the wrestling match with Zuck.
According to this administration, the correct term is ‘cosmonaut’.
Wait so i’m not a pilot because i was in an airplane once?
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…
While I’m disgusted by this whole pr stunt by Katy Petty, an astronaut is literally just a person trained to travel in a spacecraft beyond the earths atmosphere. pr Merriam Webster. So is she an astronaut? Assuming the spacecraft actually left the earths atmosphere, then yes. She can identify herself as an astronaut. Doesn’t make her anywhere near as cool an astronaut as the people who work and do research in space, but that’s not necessarily part of the definition.
No. They weren’t “trained to travel in a spacecraft”. It was fully automated. They were just passengers on an 11 minute flight.
Seriously, if that makes them astronauts…then everyone who’s been on an airplane, is a pilot.
Yuri Gagarin’s flight was entirely automated. He went a bit higher and made a full orbit, but I’m pretty sure everyone agrees he’s an astronaut.
Sure, but he was the very first person to ever fly in space so that definitely counts for something. Additionally, he could control the spacecraft if there was an emergency.
