I get your larger point, but I feel the women and the packaged spectacle of their 11 minute flight demeaned everything you are espousing here.
The actual astronauts who manned the flight to rescue the two astronauts who were stranded on the space station happened also to be two women, and you heard crickets about that.
The women who paid for their ride on the Origin rocket don’t even come close to comparing to those two SpaceX astronauts who trained for years and excelled to SUCCESSFULLY accomplish what they did, which was a marvel.
They weren’t in full
makeup and didn’t have designer “space suits” or seek to flaunt their achievements in vainglorious ways.
The difference between the two is like night and day.
Yes, was brave for those celebrity women to do what they did, because there is great inherent risk in such an adventure.
But that’s about where the comparison begins and ends.
Great analysis. I thought it was kind of silly but they suited up and went to space. A lot of complainers would never do that.
I get your larger point, but I feel the women and the packaged spectacle of their 11 minute flight demeaned everything you are espousing here.
The actual astronauts who manned the flight to rescue the two astronauts who were stranded on the space station happened also to be two women, and you heard crickets about that.
The women who paid for their ride on the Origin rocket don’t even come close to comparing to those two SpaceX astronauts who trained for years and excelled to SUCCESSFULLY accomplish what they did, which was a marvel.
They weren’t in full
makeup and didn’t have designer “space suits” or seek to flaunt their achievements in vainglorious ways.
The difference between the two is like night and day.
Yes, was brave for those celebrity women to do what they did, because there is great inherent risk in such an adventure.
But that’s about where the comparison begins and ends.