Astronaut Criteria Updated by the FAA: Who Qualifies?

Are Jeff Bezos and the crew that flew aboard Blue Origin's first manned mission astronauts? Maybe not, under the FAA's new astronaut criteria.

The agency released Order 8800.2 on July 20, the day that Bezos and three others rocketed above the Karman line, updating astronaut criteria. Under the new guidelines, to qualify for astronaut wings, a flight crew…