Timeline for Does the US government plan to issue "Astronaut Wings" for anyone passing 80 km forever?
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Jul 23, 2021 at 23:06 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
Jul 23, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1418586733906702336 | ||
Jul 23, 2021 at 4:14 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 4 | |
Jul 12, 2021 at 13:32 | comment | added | uhoh | @OrganicMarble I'll add that to the question, thanks! I also added the BBC title so the link is now visible. | |
Jul 12, 2021 at 13:31 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jul 12, 2021 at 13:22 | comment | added | Organic Marble | Related: space.stackexchange.com/q/49095/6944 | |
Jul 12, 2021 at 5:53 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | @RussellBorogove: IIRC, Chris Hadfield explicitly called them "Virgin Galactic Astronaut Wings" or something like that. It's also noteworthy that all four mission specialists received wings at that ceremony, even though not all of them flew for the first time. (And none of the pilots did, even though they have already been to space multiple times and will likely soon surpass any other astronaut in the world in number of spaceflights, if VG flies with any sort of regular cadence. They have already sold tickets for 100 flights, after all.) | |
Jul 12, 2021 at 3:39 | comment | added | uhoh | @RussellBorogove I've now changed "to" to "for". My primary question is about the expense and responsibility of producing them, and the "forever" part as the numbers grow. | |
Jul 12, 2021 at 3:39 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jul 12, 2021 at 3:26 | comment | added | uhoh | @RussellBorogove I chose to define them as "government issue" as this award ceremony was conducted by a Canadian :-) However sometimes it does though the whole thing is still confusing to me. Luckily we now have a question to which a clarifying answer can be posted. | |
Jul 12, 2021 at 3:23 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | According to WP, the FAA issues commercial astronaut wings, and Branson is on the list. According to a Jeff Foust tweet, what they received today "don't look like FAA wings", however. | |
Jul 12, 2021 at 3:09 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Jul 12, 2021 at 3:03 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |