Who Is an Astronaut?
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tickets to travel into space, people are asking: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut?
It is no longer an easy question to answer. People who are very rich are able to pay to go into space.
Russian space officials have been calling them spaceflight
participants for many years.
The new supervisor of the U.S. space agency NASA is Bill Nelson. He does not consider himself an astronaut although he spent six days in space in 1986. He was a congressman then.
FILE PHOTO: Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) smiles in West Palm Beach, Florida
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