But other travelers on their rockets like Elon Musk may not be so lucky.

That sounds fair to me.

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US government to space tourists: You’re not astronauts

The 82-year-old had spent six decades trying to reach space.

But she still sounded unimpressed by her maiden voyage:

We went right on up and I saw darkness.

I thought I was going to see the world, but we werent quite high enough.

It looks as though Blue Origin customers will have an asterisk of their own.

HT Eric Berger

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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.

Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).

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