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The Associated Press. SpaceX/AP Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski are on SpaceX's first private spaceflight. Computer game developer Richard Garriott – who paid his way to the International Space Station in 2008 with the Russians – hates the space tourist label. “I am an astronaut,” he declared in an email, explaining that he trained for two years for the mission. “If you go to space, you’re an astronaut,” said Axiom Space’s Michael Lopez-Alegria, a former Nasa astronaut who will accompany three businessmen to the space station in January, fl...

As space tourism grows, who gets to call themselves an astronaut? Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut? It’s already a complicated issue and about to get more so as the wealthy snap up spacecraft seats and even entire flights for themselves and their entourages. Astronauts? Amateur astronauts? Space tourists? Space sightseers? Rocket riders? Or as the Russians have said for decades, spaceflight participants? NASA’s new boss Bill Nelson doesn’t consider himsel...

Marcia Dunn This Oct. 25, 1985 photo made available by NASA shows U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson of Florida, STS 61-C payload specialist. In a May 2021 interview, Nelson, NASA's new boss, doesn't consider himself an astronaut, even though he spent six days orbiting Earth in 1986 aboard space shuttle Columbia - as a congressman. (NASA via AP) May 25, 2021 - 9:20 AM CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut? It’s already a complicated issue and about to get more so as the ...

May 7th, 2021 i Only 553 people have ever been to space and, even with our emerging space tourism industry, the chances of you or anyone you know actually doing the same in this lifetime are astronomically small. But rather than bring people up to the international space, the Emmy award-winning team at Montreal’s Felix and Paul Studios is instead bringing a little bit of the international space station down to the people in its four-part immersive, virtual reality video series, "We use this medium to take people to places they cannot go," Félix Lajeunesse, co-founder and creative director...

Shchit-2 was a Soviet-era missile created to protect the Almaz military space stations from foreign threats. An example of the missile is currently displayed in a restricted area at NPO Mashinostroyenia, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, Russia, alongside an earlier version - called the Shchit-1. The Shchit-1 featured a 23mm cannon and is the only gun to ever be fired in space, reported The Drive, as far as public information suggests. The Almaz programme was a hidden effort by the Soviets to weaponise their space station - which was just a civilian endeavour as far as the rest of the w...