{"id":4096,"date":"2025-04-22T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:51:06","slug":"private-astronaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4096","title":{"rendered":"“Private Astronaut”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK, US media \u2013 and aerospace-related trade media, I’m especially<\/em> looking at YOU<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 it’s time to cut the goddamn crap and quit calling these knobs “private astronauts”<\/a> and call them what they are: “rich-ass motherfuckers who can afford to have themselves shot into space”<\/a>, especially this Isaacman clown who could afford to have himself shot into space twice,<\/em><\/a> and on the second flight performed the most useless-ass excuse for an EVA ever.<\/em> Even Alexei Leonov<\/a> was out longer, and actually managed to gather significant scientific and engineering data while in the process of getting back into the spacecraft without accidentally killing himself.<\/p>\n

But yeah, sure… the standard-issue tech entrepreneur<\/a> who has near-zero training or experience in aerospace engineering or program management or flying high-performance jet aircraft at all<\/em><\/strong><\/a> but who made himself a massive pile off a payment processing company he supposedly started as a teenager in his parents’ basement (your standard tech-bro rags-to-riches saga) and so was able to pay to have himself shot into space twice<\/em> and who is best buds with Elon Musk is, according to the Donster, the ideal choice for NASA Administrator. Yeah, that’s right \u2014 the goddamn “private astronaut”.<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re fucked on Earth, and fucked in space.<\/p>\n

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OK, US media \u2013 and aerospace-related trade media, I’m especially looking at YOU \u2013 it’s time to cut the goddamn crap and quit calling these knobs “private astronauts” and call them what they are: “rich-ass motherfuckers who can afford to have themselves shot into space”, especially this Isaacman clown who could afford to have himself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,229,762],"tags":[1494,1490,1491,1492,1489,1488,1493],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-media","category-space","category-trumpism","tag-private-astronaut","tag-alexei-leonov","tag-ed-white","tag-eva","tag-jared-isaacman","tag-katy-perry","tag-spacewalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}