Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: Thanks to Mark McCaughrean for correcting my assumptions! I guess "private astronaut" ...

Thanks to Mark McCaughrean (npub1wg6…p0eg) for correcting my assumptions! I guess "private astronaut" really is the correct terminology here - they were all trained astronauts with their tickets paid by their government or employers (I guess other Axiom missions were more for space tourists?) Still kind of weird.

And it would still be great if SpaceX *and* Axiom would publicly admit they made a big engineering mistake and state they will fix it, rather than just giving farmers piddly little private payments.