The Blue Origin all-female crew will not be considered astronauts by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Blue Origin successfully did their 11-minute space trip on Monday, April 14 when ...

The women of the beleaguered Blue Origin flight aren't astronauts, Duffy says, though they were ‘brave and glam.’ ...

Jeff Bezos had one of his Blue Origin rockets take his fiancee and her celebrity friends on a quick ride into space — but are ...

FAA guidelines say the six women did not meet mission-critical standards that qualify a person as an astronaut.

In commercial space flights (especially those with celebrities), we often overlook the critical scientific work being ...

The New Shepard is named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space, which is in line with Blue Origin's history of ...

The FAA no longer awards astronaut wings and maintains a website listing individuals who reach 50 miles above Earth's surface. When Blue Origin launched their first all-female crew, which included ...

Additionally, the FAA's astronaut wing program also allowed ... of NASA means that there is no way that the members of the Blue Origin mission can be officially recognised as astronauts.

This week's flight of the New Shepard spacecraft, NS-31, and its all-female crew has stirred up a mess of coverage, from ...

Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King and the rest of the Blue Origins crew who flew to space on Monday may not technically ...

Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King and the rest of the Blue Origins crew who flew to space on Monday may not technically be astronauts, according to federal government rules. Despite ...