Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: on Nostr: 👺防空識別區👹 the Karman became a qualifier for astronauts after the ...
👺防空識別區👹 (nprofile…85l6) the Karman became a qualifier for astronauts after the Shepards flight. The only reason it was pulled into this definition was to call Shepard an astronaut while justifying it by some vaguely related scientific fact.
>The U.S. Armed Forces definition of an astronaut is a person who has flown higher than 50 miles (80 km) above mean sea level, approximately the line between the mesosphere and the thermosphere. NASA formerly used the FAI's 100-kilometre (62-mile) figure, though this was changed in 2005 to eliminate any inconsistency between military personnel and civilians flying in the same vehicle
From Wikipedia. If those celebs flew above that, they are officially US astronauts.
>The U.S. Armed Forces definition of an astronaut is a person who has flown higher than 50 miles (80 km) above mean sea level, approximately the line between the mesosphere and the thermosphere. NASA formerly used the FAI's 100-kilometre (62-mile) figure, though this was changed in 2005 to eliminate any inconsistency between military personnel and civilians flying in the same vehicle
From Wikipedia. If those celebs flew above that, they are officially US astronauts.