Who gets to be an astronaut during the private spaceflight boom?
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As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut?
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.More Related News