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Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut” | It turns out the FAA now takes no role in identifying who is an astronaut.
It turns out the FAA now takes no role in identifying who is an astronaut.
That was pretty much how things stood until Thursday evening, when the Secretary of the US Department of Transportation, Sean Duffy, shared some thoughts on the social media site X. For starters the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency within the US Department of Transportation Duffy leads, has previously said it will take no part in determining whether people who fly on suborbital flights are astronauts. After that time, the program recognized private citizens who flew on Virgin Galactic's Unity spacecraft, Blue Origin's New Shepard, and SpaceX's orbital Crew Dragon vehicle.
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