{"id":601794,"date":"2021-07-24T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601794"},"modified":"2021-07-24T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T15:51:03","slug":"bezos-not-an-astronaut-faa-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bezos-not-an-astronaut-faa-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos Not An \u2018Astronaut,\u2019 FAA Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbezos-not-an-astronaut-faa-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wings-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will not be deemed an \u201castronaut\u201d because the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has tightened its rules on who qualifies for the honorific.<\/p>\n<p>Although Bezos and the crew of Blue Origin soared to 66.5 milers above the Earth \u2014 technically qualifying for a trip into outer space \u2014 the fully autonomous New Shepard rocket ship means they weren\u2019t really \u201castronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to qualify, they have to make a contribution to the flight and to human space flight safety while travelling beyond the 50 miles mark defined as space by the FAA,\u201d The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-9817863\/Jeff-Bezos-NOT-astronaut-FAA-changes-rules-awards-astronaut-wings.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cWith the Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft controlled entirely from the ground, with no input from the crew on board, the new FAA criteria wasn\u2019t met.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Virgin Galactic pilots, who flew the space plane to 53 miles above the Earth on July 10, along with chief astronaut Beth Moses, who flew solo on a test flight, have been awarded the new commercial FAA astronaut wings. Yet no one from the Blue Origin team qualified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could put the entire space tourism industry in doubt, experts predict, as passengers on the various spacecraft wouldn\u2019t \u2018get their wings,&#8217;\u201d the Mail reported. \u201cIt is possible a new category of \u2018space tourist\u2019 or commercial astronaut is created to describe those who go to space purely as a passenger, rather than crew or pilots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos rocketed into space Tuesday on his company\u2019s first flight with passengers aboard, becoming the second billionaire to use his own spacecraft to enter space. The 10:10-minute flight went off without a hitch, blasting off right on schedule, soaring to an apogee of 351,210 feet (66.51 miles), then plunging back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>In a status check of all passengers after the capsule landed in a plume of dust, the Amazon founder said \u201castronaut Bezos: best day ever.\u201d Bezos was accompanied into space by three people: his brother, Mark; an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas; and an 18-year-old physics student from the Netherlands \u2014 the oldest and youngest people ever to blast into space.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, all of the passengers had astronaut wings pinned to their flight suits.<\/p>\n<p>A day before his flight, Bezos, one of a slew of billionaires who are ignoring all the woes on Planet Earth as they head to space on their own private rockets, acknowledged that their flights \u201care just joyrides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2021\/07\/19\/jeff-bezos-space-flight-crane-intv-newday-vpx.cnn\">interview<\/a> Monday on CNN, Bezos was asked by host Rachel Crane about his flight. \u201cThere have been a chorus of critics saying that these flights to space are just joyrides for the wealthy and that you should be spending your time and your money and energy trying to solve problems here on Earth. So what do you say to those critics?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I say they\u2019re largely right. We have to do both,\u201d Bezos said. \u201cWe have lots of problems here and now on Earth and we need to work on those, and we always need to look to the future. We\u2019ve always done that as a species, as a civilization. We have to do both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos soared higher than Virgin Galactic\u2019s Richard Branson, and before his flight, Team Bezos threw some shade at the billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 4% of the world recognizes a lower limit of 80 km or 50 miles as the beginning of space. New Shepard flies above both boundaries. One of the many benefits of flying with Blue Origin,\u201d they wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>And they tossed out another dig: \u201cFrom the beginning, New Shepard was designed to fly above the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line so none of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name. For 96% of the world\u2019s population, space begins 100 km up at the internationally recognized K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line is named after Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n, a Hungarian American engineer and physicist who was active in aeronautics and astronautics and lived from 1881 to 1963. The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI), an international body for aeronautics and astronautics that sets standards and keeps records, defines the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line as the altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles (about 330,000 feet), above Earth\u2019s mean sea level.<\/p>\n<p>But the U.S. puts the line of outer space at 50 miles. \u201cIt\u2019s also roughly the altitude that was used by the U.S. Air Force in the 1950s when it gave out astronaut wings to test pilots who flew over 50 miles (80 km) high,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/news\/2021\/03\/the-krmn-line-where-does-space-begin\">according<\/a> to astronomy.com.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will not be deemed an \u201castronaut\u201d because the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has tightened its rules on who qualifies for the honorific.Although Bezos and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}