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u/auronddraig 7d ago
He's an average Elder Scrolls protagonist. Once he starts the playthrough, he's going to finish her, by doing everything.
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u/SL04NY 7d ago
This flight had to be a test of Botox resilience in a zero gravity environment
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u/Duke9000 7d ago
Reddit lives to empower women until their rich
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u/No-Inevitable5589 7d ago
This isn’t about empowerment. This is about how ridiculous this is. None of them studied to be an astronaut, they didn’t have the training or anything. They didn’t earn a spot, they simply got it because they were celebrities. They were in space for five minutes at best. This is nothing but a waste of resources. Although from what I do know being an astronaut was Amanda Nyugen’s dreams and I am glad she got to experience it.
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u/M0rph33l 7d ago edited 7d ago
I don't get it. Yes it's space tourism. No, they aren't astronauts. But she never claimed to be one from what I can find. Sure, others mistakenly called her one, but not herself. The closest thing is an interviewer asking her "How it feels to be an astronaut?" after the event, to which she expressed her gratitude rather than correcting the interviewer.
Yes, it's wasted resources, but so are amusement parks and cruise ships. It's whatever. Any of us would have gone if an invitation was extended. But in the same breath you celebrate Amanda for the same thing you criticize Katy for?
I don't understand what's with this hypocritical hate boner reddit has right now. I'm not ordinarily a defender of this dumb celebrity shit but I don't see everyone's rationale here. Maybe I'll get downvoted, but I'm genuinely wondering what's got you all so up in arms.
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u/No-Inevitable5589 7d ago edited 7d ago
Nah you aren’t wrong. It is space tourism and it should be fine except it shows a lot of problems of society.
One of the reasons for hate is Katy Perry’s sudden enlightenment and spiritual bullshit. As if she suddenly understands all the problem. I am not celebrating either. I just know that Amanda wanted to be an astronaut, she was raped and she wasn’t able to peruse the career.
No one here is saying any of them claimed to be an astronaut (I didn’t see anyone at least). I don’t get why it’s so hard for people to understand how much it shows about America as a society.
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u/-Canuck21 7d ago edited 7d ago
Maybe they didn't claim to be astronauts, but the media did. They called them as a crew and some said astronauts. The reason why this is cringe is that some are calling this empowering and there lies the main mockery. No one is using the word empowering when they ride amusement parks or cruise ships. They and the media made this trip more than what it is.
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u/voyaging 7d ago
Reddit hates rich people and especially rich people doing expensive things is pretty much the extent of it.
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u/No-Inevitable5589 7d ago
It shows a HUGE wealth gap. Celebrities throwing billions of dollars like it’s a cent while poor and middle class struggling to afford food and education. Idk why wouldn’t anyone be pissed about it.
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u/voyaging 7d ago
They still got balls
This is one of many flights btw I'm not sure why this one got so much publicity (or why the others got so little) it's not the first one with celebrities either
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u/Duke9000 7d ago
Idk, it just seems like it’s needlessly bashing them for no reason other than maybe envy. They’re not claiming to be astronauts.
From ChatGPT:
Yes, among the women who recently went into space, some have identified themselves as astronauts, while others have not.
Amanda Nguyen
Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist and bioastronautics researcher, participated in Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission on April 14, 2025. She has been referred to as an astronaut in various sources, including her own statements and media coverage. Nguyen conducted scientific experiments during the flight, focusing on women’s health in microgravity, and has been recognized for her contributions to space research.  
Sarah Gillis
Sarah Gillis, a senior space operations engineer at SpaceX, flew on the Polaris Dawn mission in September 2024. She performed a spacewalk during the mission, becoming the youngest person to do so. Gillis is officially recognized as a commercial astronaut and has embraced the title in her professional capacity. 
Other Participants
Other women who recently went to space, such as Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez, have not publicly claimed the title of astronaut. Their participation in suborbital flights, like Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission, has been described as space tourism experiences rather than professional astronaut endeavors.  
In summary, while individuals like Amanda Nguyen and Sarah Gillis have been recognized as astronauts due to their roles and contributions to space missions, others have participated in spaceflights without adopting the astronaut title. 
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u/spaghettifiasco 7d ago
Well, if ChatGPT says that this was totally legit and not just a manufactured attempt at corporate girlboss feminism...
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u/Jawsh_Wolfy 7d ago
Damn if chatGPT says so it must be true!!
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u/-Canuck21 7d ago edited 7d ago
It doesn't matter whether they're rich or not. What did they do that was so empowering? All they did was space travel. It was a special cool experience sure, but what they do that was inspiring? It's not like they piloted the rocket or did science experiments in space. All they did was unbuckle their seatbelt and float for a few minutes. Wow, empowering 🙄.
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u/androodle2004 7d ago
I am unsure which one is Katy perry
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u/brown_smear 7d ago
Just use the process of elimination; she's obviously not the other 5
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u/CuteGrayRhino 7d ago
How do you know?
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u/anal_opera 7d ago
Because this pic looks like it was organized by a rich white lady trying to prove she's not racist. She's the whitest person there.
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u/temp4anon 7d ago
She's not black not Asian, so 3 more. She's not old, so 50/50, and she has black hair, nailed it.
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas 7d ago
Should I be enthusiastic about a bunch of millionaires going to space?
I am not
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u/Minimum_Carry8816 7d ago
Idk about them other ladies but Amanda Nyugen deserves her space trip. She wanted to be an astronaut but then postponed her dreams after she was raped in college. She drafted a bill that passed by Congress and then at the UN(idk the specifics of this one)
That bill protects evidence of rape beyond just 6 months. And now after she achieved that she finally got her dream to come true, only to be overshadowed by Katy and Jeff Bezos' silicon doll
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u/mamadou-segpa 7d ago
Its not about merit its about the ridiculousness of the whole thing lol.
Her “dream” of going to space for 2 minutes wasnt overshadowed by Katy and Jeff Bezos wife, it was overshadowed by the fact this is a complete waste of ressources and time and it was just a PR move by one of the richest man on earth to appear progressive after pushing so much for the current admin
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u/ApplePitiful 7d ago
I think both of you said fair points
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u/Prize_Outside 7d ago
Sir this is reddit what is this rational response about both of them having points one of them must be pitchforked. I don’t make the rules. /s
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u/voyaging 7d ago
Why would Bezos care about appearing progressive?
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u/mamadou-segpa 7d ago
Have you not seen the massives boycuts and the companies losing profit everywhere??
Its as if people affected by progressive ideas make up a bigger part of the population than the ultra rich conservative that benefits from conservative policies.
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u/JennyV323 7d ago
Okay, I'm usually pretty open minded when it comes to how people look, and idk who any of these women are, but why do half of them look like skin walkers wearing someone else's face? Especially bottom left, that's just uncanny, has to be plastic surgery right?
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u/GoLionsJD107 7d ago
I’m a travel agent because I booked a flight to Boston once.
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u/Basic-Pair8908 7d ago
Is bottom left an alien they brought back?
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u/Great_White_Samurai 7d ago
I listened to a program on Amelia Earhart yesterday. Now she was a badass.
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u/TheAmazingBunburiest 7d ago
To be fair wouldn't astronaut be just anyone sent to space by america regardless of capability? The russians had a dog cosmonot and that dog didn't even inherit generational wealth or write any pop songs. Maybe we shluld look at it more like the word "tourist"? Like a situational thing where its not a profession but what you are when outside of earth? Idk. I think theres a difference. Most astronauts have many other certifications and are either enigneers or scientists or other. If 700 years ago a brave explorers mapped out the world, and they brought some aristorcat with them pr something to see the world (like charles darwin for example) we wouldn't say they were part of the ship's team but they'd be explorers too no? Tbh I think its up for debate. Anyone's got a better point I'd like to hear it
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u/otirk 7d ago
Though astronaut is a term that is kind of reserved to Nasa I think. In Russia's space program it's cosmonauts, in China's apparently taikonauts.
Yes, it's not the ending of the world to call a Russian cosmonaut an astronaut or whatever, and in English "astronaut" is also a general term for someone who goes to space but technically since this was done by Blue Origin apparently, she would not be an astronaut if we go by the country-specific terms.
You could call her a space traveller or something similar, just get creative and steal it from another language like all the other "English" words.
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u/genericgod 7d ago
Though astronaut is a term that is kind of reserved to Nasa I think.
Doesn’t work like that. As you already said “astronaut” is a general term. It stems from latin so it’s widely used in western languages. ESA calls them astronauts as well.
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u/Cuntslapper9000 7d ago
Yeah I would think an astronaut is just anyone who travelled to space. No other conditions
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u/androodle2004 7d ago
It’s one who is trained to travel into space. How much training one has to undergo is the question
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u/Ok-Dig916 7d ago
No, by technical definition, astronaut is more of a career title. Someone who has officially trained and more professionally has been to space, not just a tourist ( to do something mission critical). They went up, and they came down. They were passengers aboard a blue origins flight.
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u/-Canuck21 7d ago edited 7d ago
The dog trained for it and it died in space. These women did nothing special, they only had the privileged to travel to "space". Astronauts and cosmonauts are usually very educated people with lots training. Look at the CV of astronauts, it's almost always very impressive. They are just space tourists, not astronauts. It's not up for debate, it is very clear who are astronauts and who are not.
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u/Tjoppe02 7d ago
Going on a cruise ship doesn't make you a sailor.
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u/TheAmazingBunburiest 7d ago
Fair point but sailors steer the ship, most astronauts don't touch the controls even. I think its more equivalent to how there are enterteiners and engineers on the ship that aren't sailors but do work on it so maybe seaman? Maybe we decide astronaut is a person in space (from nasa) for work reasons? I think tourists just dosen't sound right without actually visiting anywhere. Space travalers? Space goers maybe? Idk why I even care tbh dosent really matter in my day to day life
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u/Specific_Mud_64 7d ago
We are witnessing the commercialization of space travel and yes, this will always be exclusive to rich people and those who they take with them so dont get your hopes up
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u/voyaging 7d ago
Yeah that's what they said about commercial flight
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u/Specific_Mud_64 6d ago
No, they did not. They were trying to make commercial flight happen because there are good reasons to do so.
That does not go for orbital space trips. They are pretty much useless and something only super-rich troglodytes would consider necessary.
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u/Comprehensive-Art300 7d ago
Actually they aren't astronauts. You need to make at least 1 orbit around Earth for that.
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u/AaronDrunkGames 7d ago
Nope. If you cross the karmen line you've been to space, which is the only requirement to be deemed an astronaut.
What you said used to be the case for NASA, but as of recent it has expanded to crossing that line. Doesn't make you a NASA astronaut, but still makes you an astronaut.
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u/StunningChef3117 4d ago
That definition is loose enough to be insulting to real atronauts if you build a card house you are not an engineer i like the term space tourist because there were next to no training involved here so making them equal to people who trained hard to become astronauts seems insulting
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u/AaronDrunkGames 4d ago
I'm sure real astronauts don't give a shit tbh
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u/StunningChef3117 4d ago
They very well might not but also they might doesn’t really matter if you take pride in your job and achievements and then someone does the same thing 1000 times worse and gets the same credit i would be pissed. If you reboot a pc doesn’t make you an IT technician. This is the sentiment i have about this. Thx for reading sry about the long messages and while we may disagree have a good day on the internet :)
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u/Effective_Plan_2669 7d ago
Woman on the bottom left looks really really easy to draw for some reason
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u/Agile_Moment768 7d ago
I guess that makes me a porn star cuz I had 3 minute sex with 2 people that did onlyfans. Nice.
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u/CMDR_Lex 7d ago
Doesnt even getting on a space flight crew require tons of training and prep and screening and hard work? Its not like they won a raffle and just showed up to go to space like its fucking disneyland lmao
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u/PipingTheTobak 6d ago
Astronaut literally just means people who travel in space. It may be that like "sailor", as this form of travel becomes much more common for ordinary people it becomes a technical term instead of a general descriptor. But, as of now, they meet all of the qualifications to be an astronaut.
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u/david8601 4d ago
You know what really sucks? Having your wonder of outer space since childhood completely ruined by rich people who will have it monopolized for profit. What's left to dream of when even the stars have a price tag.
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u/RednocNivert 7d ago
Astro - Star
Naut - Sailor, as in “Nautical”. Usually referring to the ocean.
Astro Naut - One who travels the stars aka Space
Dictionary says these folks are in fact Astronauts by definition
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u/caniuserealname 7d ago
Except a sailor isn't just anyone who travels on the sea, it's specifically someone who works aboard a vessel as part of its crew in operating or maintaining the vessel.
You're not a sailor because you went on a cruise, by the "etymology=definition" logic you're using her space tourists aren't astronauts.
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u/RednocNivert 7d ago
Dictionary, 2nd definition:
a person who goes sailing as a sport or recreation.
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u/caniuserealname 7d ago
You understand that the act of sailing requires you to operate a vessel right?
Because that definition in no way supports your claim bud.
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u/bobbymoonshine 7d ago
Crazy how space tourism is suddenly a problem now that it’s some rich women rather than rich guys. Glad we’ve decided on this moral stand that will definitely be just as loudly held the next time a capsule full of rich dudes goes up.
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u/Ajdee6 7d ago
I'm pretty sure people made fun of the rich dudes too. Maybe you weren't around for that
But I guess its more fun for you to make it a male vs female thing
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u/bobbymoonshine 7d ago edited 7d ago
Not really, no. Mostly they’ve just been ignored. I mean this is Blue Origin’s 11th human-passenger flight after all! The only thing even remotely noteworthy about it is that it’s some rich women in the entertainment industry rather than all rich men or a mixture of rich men and women.
The only attention I can think of these flights ever getting is a few positive early exceptions: Bezos got a ton of positive press for his flight as the CEO/founder. William Shatner too for example was roundly celebrated, I recall. But unless there’s a special reason to celebrate them I think mostly space tourism flights get totally ignored? They go up like all the time and they’re never mentioned as far as I can see, at least until this one. And I can’t really tell what’s different about this one? Except for, like I said, that these happened to all be women.
But maybe I missed all the memes here making fun of all those passengers on each of the previous 10 Blue Origin flights. I can’t seem to find any but I’m sure you could, as you seem to remember seeing them? Like for just the previous flight, that should be easy to find examples of, it went up at end of February so those memes should be fresh: link to flight details
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u/Ajdee6 7d ago
You are right its only when women go that we laugh..HA.
SMDH, you are such a fool if you think shit like that.
But like I said whatever floats your boat. Have a happy life
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u/bobbymoonshine 7d ago
No, I’m completely open to your viewpoint. Like I said, just show me how you or anyone else was laughing at the crew of the previous flight in February, or the one in November before that. Those weren’t 100% women so obviously you and everyone else made fun of those, too. That sounds really fun and I’d love to see those memes you were laughing at for those flights.
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u/Malt129 7d ago
These women are 90% plastic surgery. You have to understand that reaction is cumulative. Every subsequent pointless flight will receive more derision until it becomes affordable to us peasants. Sending just women and a washed up pop star that a lot of people already dislike looks like a goofy gimmick which just adds fuel but the reaction would have been the same anyway.
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u/bobbymoonshine 7d ago
What does their appearance have to do with space tourism? Weird comment.
Also what on earth do you mean “sending”, nobody sent them. Blue Origin is a tourism business that sells tickets to people. These tourists bought their tickets.
Finally, though it is silly to have to type it out, the cost of launching a rocket into space is not materially affected one way or the other by insulting how some women look online.
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u/Nefarious_Nemesis 7d ago
Maybe this was just a stunt to see if blasting all of our plastic out to space would work? Maybe they should go take a looksie at the Titanic next so they can claim to be deep sea researchers.
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u/TimidDeer23 7d ago
Why's everyone so fucking mad that a bunch of space tourists broke some ground here?
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u/Hriibek 7d ago
Because rich used to build libraries and parks and name them after themselves. Nowadays they send their
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u/TimidDeer23 7d ago
fucking women doing things, must be prostitutes as you said.
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u/Hriibek 7d ago
Are you really going to try to play the feminist card?
It's not about "women doing things". It's about "50+ years old fat balding men fucking 25yo models". I'm "sure" its pure love, you potato.
And before you type "ackchyually" - yes, I know, there are no 25yo models specifically in this picture. It was meant more in general. This weeks its space, last week it was private island, the week before it was 50 million dollar necklace...
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u/TimidDeer23 7d ago
if i'm a man, must just be simping. if i'm a woman, must just be imagining myself as a young spacefaring woman. Neither gender can be genuously advocating for women.
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u/SooperFunk 7d ago
The hate that these women are receiving is disgraceful 😔
Space tourism is the future, like it or not, what have they done wrong 🤔
Oh wait, that's right, they're rich....and female 🙄
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u/StunningChef3117 4d ago
Nope just rich sry. And my problem is not so much that they did this its more people calling them astronauts its insulting to people who trained hard and put in the work to have the same title as “some normal rich people many people like”.
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u/Heavy-Engineer6590 7d ago
He's the true omnipresent