Blue Origin first human flight

Re:Blue Origin first human flight by jb1991 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:19PM (#27895730)

And how about Christa McAuliffe? She was a career school teacher who had the opportunity to fly on the Challenger. But she was also titled an astronaut.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by agloeregrets on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:23PM (#27895786)

Christa was trained and fully qualified for her role.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by nautilius on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:56PM (#27896229)

All on board today were trained and fully qualified for their roles.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by agloeregrets on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:39PM (#27900987)

In which their role was 'sit there, when sign says you can unbuckle, dso that, then get clicked back in when it's time.

Christa was legit trained how to spacewalk.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by bernulli on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:07AM (#27906481)

Exactly. Which is more than what Gagarin or Shepard did.

Sure, McAuliffe trained to do so much more, but all of them fulfill the criterion you gave of what an astronaut is.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by js2 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:27PM (#27895845)

She trained for that mission for a year, and planned to conduct experiments and teach lessons from space. I don’t make the rules, but it seems to me she did a fair bit more than touristing.

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