Guys that age can have that problem.
Captain Kirk heading to space.. for real!
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I mean, it doesn’t look all that different compared to the real photo, so don’t feel bad.
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Live stream of launch:
Shatner in space. Amazing.
Godspeed Bill Shatner.
The commentary on the livestream is so terrible. It's like if a movie was doing a parody of a private companies space launch, but it's real. It's so over the top "All hail Bezos & Blue Origin & Amazon" that Paul Verhoeven would find it a little much.
Also, stop calling them astronauts, commentators. They're not astronauts. They're space tourists. The FAA actually went out of its way to specify that they're not astronauts when Bezos' went on his first trip - an Astronaut has to be a member of the crew and actually *do something* on the mission. Not just pay/be given a free trip as a(n admittedly great) PR stunt.
Also, stop calling them astronauts, commentators. They're not astronauts. They're space tourists. The FAA actually went out of its way to specify that they're not astronauts when Bezos' went on his first trip - an Astronaut has to be a member of the crew and actually *do something* on the mission. Not just pay/be given a free trip as a(n admittedly great) PR stunt.
Even Bezos can't afford Paramount's licensing fees.
I think they've been referring to the civilians as "customers".
But yeah, the commentary is very corporate, masquerading as news coverage.
No, they've constantly been referring to their "Four astronauts", including as I read your reply. They use the word "customers" when doing sales pitches about how great an experience this will be for future tourists.
I just caught examples of them doing both. They're sometimes distinguishing the civilians as customers, sometimes referring to all as astronauts.
Seems that calling them astronauts would be like calling me an aviator as I sip champagne in my first class seat
i heard capcom say "Blue origin astronaut" at one point, probably clarifying since 1: they don't have their commercial astronaut wings yet, and 2: they're not going to get them after that ruling earlier this year. Just part of the tourist experience now, I suppose.
I rode in a 747, I'm a qualified pilot.
I worked in a hospital, I'm a doctor.
So many people are going "Don't be pedantic" in other threads.
As if years (or decades) of training, experience, and an actual job to do is the equivalent of spending cash for a ride as a passenger.
Blood, sweat, and tears vs. buying your seat.
Just signed up to be apart of this wow can't believe what I'm watching
Miles O'Brien has been covering spaceflight for CNN for decades.
