Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Dec 20

Altitude alone isn't a sensible way to define an #astronaut. Flying on a commercial airliner ✈️ does not make you an aviator. Riding in a ferry ⛴️ does not make you a mariner. Stepping into a #rocket 🚀 is an insufficient condition for #astronaut wings.
Orbital #tourism must reach #orbital speeds of approximately 28,000 km per hour. Orbital tourists spend more time in Space 🌌 and travel farther from Earth https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/who-owns-outer-space/space-tourism/DC27962FB213D032D820504C173E9BD8

#BlueOrigin #NewShepard #suborbital #SpaceTourism

Space Tourism (Chapter 1) - Who Owns Outer Space?

Who Owns Outer Space? - April 2023

Cambridge Core
SpaceNewsDec 20

Blue Origin flies first wheelchair user to space

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-flies-first-wheelchair-user-to-space/

SpaceNewsDec 19

Astrobotic secures contracts for suborbital vehicle development

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/astrobotic-secures-contracts-for-suborbital-vehicle-development/

Zeitgeisty AphorismsDec 6
#spacex is easy, #suborbital is difficult.
Zeitgeisty AphorismsNov 23
#spacex corrects our faults that #suborbital cannot correct.
Zeitgeisty AphorismsOct 28
#spacex is poetry, #suborbital is prose.
Zeitgeisty AphorismsOct 22
#spacex is structured like #suborbital.
Zeitgeisty AphorismsOct 21
#spacex and #suborbital have their limits, Haliburton is inexhaustible.
Zeitgeisty AphorismsOct 21
#spacex and #suborbital have their limits, Graham Greene is inexhaustible.
Zeitgeisty AphorismsSep 29
#spacex is more opposed to #suborbital than to Saints.