Sorry Katy Perry ... you and your fellow space travelers are no astronauts, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
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00:00To maybe the last but probably not person to pile on to the all-female crew of Blue Origin,
00:10which they started this week with what they thought was a joyous few minutes above the earth.
00:17They wish they were the ones that had to stay up for nine months.
00:21Can't we just go to the space station and stay out of this?
00:23Because now you have the Transportation Secretary of the United States of America, Sean Duffy,
00:30deciding that he has to put in his two cents.
00:34Not astronauts.
00:35And trash them.
00:36This is what he said.
00:37By the way, I don't know that anyone actually asked him about this.
00:41He just posted it.
00:41The U.S. commercial space industry is an inspiring project which showcases American ingenuity and exceptionalism.
00:47Positive.
00:48But the last FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program were clear.
00:55Crew members who travel into space must have, quote,
00:58demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety or contributed to human space flight safety.
01:06The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam.
01:11Oh, my God.
01:12But you cannot identify as an astronaut.
01:15They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria.
01:18Come on.
01:19I don't.
01:20I mean, why is the state, why is it, why is the, why is the Transportation Secretary, why does he care?
01:26Why not?
01:27I get it.
01:27Everyone is, everyone is saying incorrect information.
01:32He's just simply set the record straight.
01:34I mean, wasn't, it's like, like, riding, like, riding on your Delta flight doesn't make you a pilot, guys.
01:39Okay?
01:40You're just saying.
01:41Okay?
01:41And by the way, I'm somebody who, I love space exploration, and I think that this is worthy and make a lot of money so then they can do things that actually do forward humanity.
01:54I would venture a guess that none of the women on board that flight were doing it because they wanted the title of astronaut.
02:02Okay.
02:03Don't call him astronaut.
02:03Maybe Katy Perry.
02:04Maybe Katy Perry.
02:05Reagan, go back to the picture.
02:06Go back to the picture you just showed.
02:08So, Charles.
02:10If you ask me about the G word.
02:11No, no, no.
02:12Oh, okay.
02:12No, no, no.
02:13What I'm going to say is, did you not see this coming?
02:18Ah.
02:20Xavier from Paris here.
02:22And I agree with the Secretary because, honestly, this was not, they're not astronauts.
02:27They're basic, normal people who had the opportunity to go to space.
02:31I personally feel as though astronauts have worked their whole lives to get those titles.
02:36For me, these are women who don't hold any sort of title, any sort of knowledge to have the power to call themselves astronauts.
02:44Xavier, I got the title.
02:46When you were saying it, I just figured it out.
02:49They are not astronauts.
02:50They are cosmonauts.
02:54Why are you making them Russians?
02:55What?
02:56Cosmo.
02:57Cosmo.
02:58Yeah, but you know what a cosmonaut is.
02:59I know, but they're cosmo, as in cosmopolitan, knots.
03:05Send your sexist.
03:05Case closed, everybody.
03:07Case closed.
03:09He said it.
03:10Let me just point this out, though.
03:12This was, I believe, the 10th flight that Blue Origin has made.
03:16And Michael Strahan went up.
03:19Did anybody say any of this stuff?
03:20Oh, God.
03:21William Shatner went up.
03:22What was that?
03:23William Shatner went up.
03:24Did anybody say any of this stuff?
03:25No.
03:26Okay.
03:27Go back to the picture.
03:27I think I made the point.
03:28Go back to the picture, Reagan.
03:30Well, oh, oh, you don't.
03:32Without the men, please take the men out of the photo.
03:34Please take the guys out.
03:36Okay.
03:37Okay.
03:37Not fair.
03:38Not fair.
03:41Guys.
03:42Okay.
03:43I think I made a very good point.
03:44Until you got that.
03:45No.
03:46I still, my point still stands.
03:48Come on.
03:48I still, my point still stands.
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