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Who Is an Astronaut?


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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In this new world of space tourism and private launches, who is an astronaut?


In this new world of space tourism and private launches, who is an astronaut?
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In this new world of space tourism and private launches, who is an astronaut?
As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut? It’s already a complicated issue and about to get more so as the wealthy snap up spacecraft seats and even entire flights for themselves and their entourages. Astronauts? Amateur astronauts? Space tourists? Space sightseers? Rocket riders? Or as the Russians have said for decades, spaceflight participants? NASA’s new boss Bill Nelson doesn’t consider himself an astronaut even though he spent six days orbiting Earth in 1986 aboard space shuttle Columbia as a congressman. ....

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