r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 29 '26

SMH Katy Perry was trapped in a giant plastic bottle because fans refused to roll her towards the stage

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u/protostar71 Jul 29 '26

She's no more an astronaut than you are a pilot after catching a flight.

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u/lemelisk42 Jul 29 '26

To be fair, aeronauts included people who were just pioneering passengers in early airplanes. They weren't all pilots.

I feel like astronaut is more comparable to aeronaut than pilot. Pilot is a specific job on a ship/plane/etc

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u/phansen101 Jul 29 '26

A pilot is specially trained, Astronaut technically applies to any human space traveler.

You may not like it, but Katy Perry is an astronaut ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/DonQui_Kong Jul 29 '26

This a semantic discussion.
Some bodies do not consider space tourists astronauts, while others do.

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u/Plus_Willow7084 Jul 29 '26

Depends on what definition and interpretation of the definition is used. E.g. NASA and FAA have explicitly categorised her as a space tourist, not an astronaut, as she had no role on board. Blue Origin classify her as an astronaut.

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u/personman Jul 29 '26

you gotta put a backslash before the right arm

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u/Guy_who_loves_milfs Jul 29 '26

Boy are my arms tired