The Secretary of Transportation of the United States, Sean Duffy, brought the women’s team that flew to space this week back to Earth for the second time this week, which did nothing to meet the criteria to be called astronauts.
“The crew that flew to space this week on a flight automated by Blue Origin was brave and glamorous, but it cannot be identified as an astronaut,” Duffy wrote on Thursday in X.
“They do not comply with the criteria of FAA astronauts,” he added, pointing out the most recent guidelines of the Federal Aviation Administration under the Alas de Astronauts Astronauts Program.
While the crew Can qualify only as “space travelers” Duffy praised the United States commercial space industry as “an inspiring project that shows US ingenuity and exceptionalism” in its publication.
Mondays, The blue origin of Jeff Bezos She flew to her fiancee Lauren Sánchez, Pop star Katy Perry, “CBS Mornings”, Gayle King, Civil Rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA engineer Aisha Bowe and film producer Kerianne Frynn on the 11 -minute flight.
But none of the crew members really played a direct role in the piloting test The New Shepard 31, since it shot from the company’s base in Van Horn, Texas and rose to 62 miles on the surface of the earth.
When the Wings Shuttered program was launched in 2004, he recognized anyone who flew to the outer space as an astronaut. But in 2021, FAA reviewed the rules, requiring that passengers “demonstrated activities.”
King said the group, which was adorned in form adjustment monkeys And the false eyelashes were given a serenade for Perry singing “What a Wonderful World” aboard the rocket.
“We advanced science today,” Bowe insisted after the flight, adding: “More people can do significant research with the blue origin because we collect data.”
Even celebrities criticized the trip to be a Choreographed media trick.
Model Emily Ratajkowski said she was “beyond parody” and Jessica Chastain shared an opinion article in X of The guardian He said “showed the absolute defeat of American feminism.”
Monday’s trip marked the first totally feminine crew from the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963.
