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Humans on New Shepard: Astronaut or not? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It says quite a lot that this "discussion" completely ignored every space tourist after the first, right up to the point that a group of women made the trip.

[–] ptfrd@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

completely ignored

Obviously that's an exaggeration.

It says quite a lot

Does it? What if a thorough media analysis were to show that the level of discussion of this topic is roughly in proportion to the level of coverage of each mission?

Or that it is related to the extent to which these people are getting described as astronauts? For example, Shatner got a decent amount of coverage, but my guess is that fewer than half of the articles about his trip actually described him as an astronaut. E.g. NPR

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You don't think Bezos only did this for the "Female Empowerment" publicity checkbox? You'll give him the benefit of doubt?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Of course he did. Everything billionaires do is for their own benefit first.