When did passengers become a “crew?”
Bingo!! WHO is the CREW?
Thinking the same thing.
They used to be monkeys or dogs.
Exactly. It’s a flight controlled by computers and mission control. The humans on board are merely cargo.
Just like when the shuttle was flying. It only had two pilots but everyone was called crew, just like flight attendants on airliners I guess.
When things got regulated.
I’m not sure exactly how this applies to spacecraft - but I imagine it is similar to aircraft and maritime vessels.
You can not legally carry passengers in an experimental vessel. The vessel has to be certified for carrying passengers. When someone is a passenger, they get certain legal rights and protections that are not extended to the crew of the vessel.
It is common for people to be listed as “crew members” to get around this rule. All the people on the Titan (the OceanGate submersible that was destroyed) were listed as crew for this reason.
I suspect that is why these women are all “crew members”.
Yeager would say they were “Spam in a can.”
Chicken Little was just ahead his time.
Unannounced flight plan change. Sorry Elon, they are going to Mars.
Space tourists.
Not a crew.
The MSM is trying to create a narrative that isn't just there.