What about other entertainers who took the same trip - e.g. William Shatner - he is not defined as an 'Astronaut' in his wikipedia article. I think it makes sense not to call her an 'Astronaut' as well.
This is good because we are now having conversations about what to call all civilians who otherwise have no spacetravel knowledge. In our Star Trek/Destiny future where anyone can go to sapce, what do we all them?
Oh that's Wiki policy! There's a snowball clause which says that "there's a snowball's chance in hell this will happen so close it before the week time limit on discussions" (paraphrasing here). The short is "snow close."
She's an astronaut the way you're a gynecologist. Doing it occasionally in your spare time as a lark isn't the same as going to school and becoming an actual expert.
Absolutely and not crapping on the trip just female scientist should have gotten top billing, especially the one who worked her ass off to finally get there
A big part of this is the control of the vehicle. There are a couple of comparisons over the various claims being made, but the supersonic flights in Concorde feel worth a mention. There must have been millions of passenger seats sold on scheduled supersonic flights.
I don’t exactly trust wiki anymore since they removed me as not notable. You can be attacked by bigots there and scam emails to fix “the problem”. Sports dudes are all notable.
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Katie Perry is anything but an astronaut she spent 11 minutes on a rocket. Paid big bucks to do it. I would think she could use her money for something else besides being in zero gravity for three minutes. Katy Perry do better.
She's not an astronaut, none of them are. This was a publicity stunt by a company owned by a billionaire Trump supporter, whose company, Amazon, which owns Whole Foods btw, just did away with DEI, which is why Target is being boycotted.
There's a parallel between space tourist and infected by COVID. The first few are notable (e.g. Tom Hanks with COVID tool headlines) but after a while it was just another one between too many
From what I saw of Katies exploration of space and your description of how it all went I would have to say Katie is not an astronaut, more of space cargo.
Against including it in the lede is not against inclusion in the article, just the first paragraph. For an account dedicated to posting Wikipedia content you sure do have a resounding lack of knowledge of its systems
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13 X-15 flights by 8 pilots qualified for Air Force/NASA astronaut wings by exceeding 50km, only two flights (both piloted by Joseph A. Walker) exceeded the Karman line.
I think the "piloted" part will be significant when determining who is or isn't an astronaut.
I think the difference here is that astronauts are paid to risk their lives for educational and scientific research while Katy Perry just went there unpaid and paying (someone paid exorbant amount) to go there with no actual job tasks. Katy Perry is just being a tourist
Right, and X-15 pilots were highly skilled, highly trained individuals who were essentially an extension of the engineers on the ground who developed each flight's test profile. They weren't joyriding up there, they were flying very precise and dangerous missions. They were the real deal
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So when we see a roach on the floor, we can label it a "space tourist".
Gotta be a first…🤯
I think not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snowball_clause
All she did was take a ride lol.
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Katy Perry is not and has never been an astronaut
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https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/FAA_Order_8800.2.pdf
Does that make me a race car driver?
2) Honestly you’re more of a race car driver than Katy Perry is to an astronaut, cuz you actually drove the thing.
13 X-15 flights by 8 pilots qualified for Air Force/NASA astronaut wings by exceeding 50km, only two flights (both piloted by Joseph A. Walker) exceeded the Karman line.
I think the "piloted" part will be significant when determining who is or isn't an astronaut.
Fine line perhaps considering space launch often involves little human input and especially not from all crew members on board. But significant.
i don't understand any of it wouldn't do it myself vertigo need actual air but still i can see huge feat.
it's alright you don't have to like her i'm just happy she did her and not take me with her...