return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 month agoTrump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down18cross-posted to: TooDumbToImagine@europe.pubspaceflight@sh.itjust.works
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minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoWhat’s the actual difference? Any history book will confirm that Gagarin had as much control of his craft as Katy Perry or Enos the chimp did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15 The pilots of the X-15 flew into space and landed their craft.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoNo, he wasn’t, because there were no controls for him to use.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoTIL. None of that changes the fact that the original definition of ‘astronaut’ was anyone who traveled into space [60 miles up] as a pilot or passenger.
What’s the actual difference? Any history book will confirm that Gagarin had as much control of his craft as Katy Perry or Enos the chimp did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15
The pilots of the X-15 flew into space and landed their craft.
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No, he wasn’t, because there were no controls for him to use.
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TIL.
None of that changes the fact that the original definition of ‘astronaut’ was anyone who traveled into space [60 miles up] as a pilot or passenger.