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If you can buy a ticket to space, does that make you an astronaut?

Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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.
“I reserve that term for my professional colleagues,” Mr. Nelson recently told The Associated Press. ....

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Who's an astronaut as private spaceflight picks up speed? - New Delhi Times - India's Only International Newspaper

May 25, 2021
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CAPE CANAVERAL 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.
“I reserve that term for my professional colleagues,” Nelson recently told The Associated Press. ....

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Marine Lt. Col. John Glenn reaches for controls inside a Mercury capsule procedures trainer as he shows how the first U.S. astronaut will ride through space during a demonstration at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research Center in Langley Field, Va., on Jan. 11, 1961. In 2021, as more companies start selling tickets to space and the cosmos opens for travel like never before, a question looms above all others: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut? (AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 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. ....

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Can space tourists call themselves 'astronauts'? It's complicated

The Associated Press.
SpaceX/AP
Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski are on SpaceX s first private spaceflight.
Computer game developer Richard Garriott – who paid his way to the International Space Station in 2008 with the Russians – hates the space tourist label. “I am an astronaut,” he declared in an email, explaining that he trained for two years for the mission.
“If you go to space, you’re an astronaut,” said Axiom Space’s Michael Lopez-Alegria, a former Nasa astronaut who will accompany three businessmen to the space station in January, flying SpaceX. His US$55 million-a-seat (NZ$76 million) clients plan to conduct research up there, he stressed, and do not consider themselves space tourists. ....

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As space tourism grows, who gets to call themselves an astronaut?

As space tourism grows, who gets to call themselves an astronaut?
Marcia Dunn
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 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. ....

United States , Mike Mullane , Jeff Bezo , Richard Branson Virgin , Michael Lopez Alegria , John Shoffner , Nasif Siddiqi , Peggy Whitson , Christa Mcauliffe , Bill Nelson , Owen Garriott , Richard Garriott , Roger Launius , Virgin Galactic , Association Of Space Explorers , Fordham University , Associated Press , Astronauts Memorial Foundation , Blue Origin , Kennedy Space Center , Aviation Administration , Astronaut Mission , International Space Station , Axiom Space , Private Astronaut , Federal Aviation Administration ,