Still, Blue Origin’s insistence that the passengers were now ‘officially astronauts’ was the most annoying aspect of the situation.
The crew did, in theory, reach space when they crossed the Karman Line, and they might be regarded as astronauts.
Social media critics countered that this diminished the efforts of actual female astronauts, who undergo years of training to carry out important space research.
“These women going up in Blue Origin are celebrities going for a 10-minute RIDE in low orbit,” one indignant reader commented.
