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After Blue Origin's New Shepard flight, the question arose: what makes one an 'astronaut?'
After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now ...
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Duffy: All-Female Blue Origin Crew Not Astronauts
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took to X on Thursday evening to clarify the definition of an “astronaut ... its New Shepard rocket with an all-female crew into suborbital space ...
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Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight urges women to shoot for the stars — but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women ...
Secretary of transportation to the Blue Origin all-female crew: ‘You cannot identify as an astronaut’
FAA guidelines say the six women did not meet mission-critical standards that qualify a person as an astronaut.
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CBS News Anchor Schooled For Saying 1 Word To Female Astronaut
The first Black woman to go into space made one small step for gender equality on Monday. During a CBS News segment that aired before the rocket launch, Jemison noted how her own experience taught ...
Katy Perry, Gayle King and 4 other women are headed for the ‘edge of space.’ Here’s what that means
Katy Perry and Gayle King are among the famous passengers taking a rocket-powered joyride Monday. But determining the point at which the star-studded crew reaches space isn’t as straightforward as it ...