Do they have to wait until their first flight before they can call themselves an astronaut? Isn't the definition a person who "travels into space"?
2006-09-23 14:32:02 · 4 answers · asked by Unknown 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, training has nothing to do with being considered an astronaut. In the US an astronaut is someone who travels to an altitude of 50 miles. The international community considers 62 miles (or 100km) the altitude needed to obtain astronaut status.
It was this 100km altitude that Spaceship one (the first commercial space vehicle) needed to surpass and when it did, it's pilot Michael Melville officially became an astronaut without going through any of NASA's training.
2006-09-23 15:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by The Fred 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 18:14:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure they are, what if you have been educated to be a firefighter ... but you never got into any occasion to fight one? You still are a fire fighter though, because you are educated and trained as such. I'd say, once you stop training and being prepared then you aren't any more.
2006-09-24 03:15:45 · answer #3 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you train to become a policeman and become one, but never arrest any one, never chase any speeders, never walk a beat, can you say you are a policeman?
2006-09-23 14:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋