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fooker a day ago

It’s broadly correct, if you interpret ‘humans’ as ordinary humans who are not astronauts.

dragonwriter a day ago | parent | next [-]

That generous redefinition.of “humans” deals with only the error in the first sentence of the response; the rest is still not “broadly correct” even with it in place.

wongarsu a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Blue Origin is built on taking ordinary humans to space. So is/was Virgin Galactic, though they are in a bit of a transitionary phase right now. SpaceX is also willing, they might even take you on a flyby of the moon if you bring money and patience (iirc the last customer lost patience). Basically just ring up your favorite multi-billionaire's space program. And while the estimated price would be correct for SpaceX, rumored prices for Blue Origin's New Shepard are only in the hundreds of thousands per seat

Edit: also the "but if you do that you are an astronaut, so it's still true that only astronauts can do that" loophole was closed when the FAA redefined the word astronaut in 2021. At least if you follow their definition of the word