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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Who Is an Astronaut?' data-article-id='5670'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12000'>As more companies start selling tickets to travel into space, people are asking: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut?</span> <span data-start-time='12000' data-end-time='16604'>It is no longer an easy question to answer. </span> <span data-start-time='16604' data-end-time='21917'>People who are very rich are able to pay to go into space.</span> <span data-start-time='21917' data-end-time='28563'>Russian space officials have been calling them spaceflight participants for many years.</span> <span data-start-time='28563' data-end-time='34313'>The new supervisor of the U.S. space agency NASA is Bill Nelson.</span> <span data-start-time='34313' data-end-time='41958'> He does not consider himself an astronaut although he spent six days in space in 1986. </span> <span data-start-time='41958' data-end-time='44396'>He was a congressman then.</span> <span data-start-time='44396' data-end-time='51208'>He told The Associated Press that he believes the term “astronaut” should be for professionals.</span> <span data-start-time='51208' data-end-time='55688'>Richard Garriott is a computer game developer. </span> <span data-start-time='55688' data-end-time='64354'>He paid a lot of money for his trip to the International Space Station in 2008 on a Russian spacecraft. </span> <span data-start-time='64354' data-end-time='68042'>He hates the term space tourist. </span> <span data-start-time='68042' data-end-time='72271'>He said in an email, “I am an astronaut.” </span> <span data-start-time='72271' data-end-time='76125'>He said he trained for two years to go into space.</span> <span data-start-time='76125' data-end-time='82688'>Axiom Space’s Michael Lopez-Alegria is a former NASA astronaut. </span> <span data-start-time='82688' data-end-time='91438'>He will join three businessmen on a SpaceX spacecraft on a trip to the space station planned for January.</span> <span data-start-time='91438' data-end-time='95917'>They each paid $55 million for the trip. </span> <span data-start-time='95917' data-end-time='103958'>Lopez-Alegria said they do not consider themselves space tourists since they will be doing research.</span> <span data-start-time='103958' data-end-time='110333'>Recently, Axiom Space said there will be a second flight to the space station next year. </span> <span data-start-time='110333' data-end-time='113604'>Peggy Whitson will be on that flight. </span> <span data-start-time='113604' data-end-time='120729'>She is a retired NASA astronaut who has spent 665 days in space.</span> <span data-start-time='120729' data-end-time='123708'>Whitson will bring John Shoffner. </span> <span data-start-time='123708' data-end-time='128563'>He is a businessman and race car driver from Knoxville, Tennessee. </span> <span data-start-time='128563' data-end-time='132771'>He is also paying about $55 million. </span> <span data-start-time='132771' data-end-time='138229'>Shoffner said he asked Peggy to make the training difficult for him. </span> <span data-start-time='138229' data-end-time='141542'>He said, “Make me an astronaut.”</span> <span data-start-time='141542' data-end-time='147292'>The word astronaut comes from the Greek words for star and sailor. </span> <span data-start-time='147292' data-end-time='154188'>The idea is easy to market and astronauts appear in movies and popular culture.</span> <span data-start-time='154188' data-end-time='159375'>Jeff Bezos is the owner of the rocket company, Blue Origin. </span> <span data-start-time='159375' data-end-time='163042'>It will call future clients “astronauts.” </span> <span data-start-time='163042' data-end-time='169188'>It is selling a place on its first spaceflight with people, planned for July. </span> <span data-start-time='169188' data-end-time='177042'>NASA even has a new term for this kind of trip: PAM for Private Astronaut Mission.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/A.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17512 data-hint-location='64354' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/what_is_a_tourist.wav'>What is a tourist?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='A person who travels to a place for pleasure'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/a_person_who_travels_to_a_place_for_pleasure.wav'><span>A person who travels to a place for pleasure</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/a_person_who_pilots_a_spaceship.wav'><span>A person who pilots a spaceship</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/a_person_who_lacks_funds_to_purchase_a_flight.wav'><span>A person who lacks funds to purchase a flight</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/a_person_who_plays_a_stringed_instrument_such_as_a_guitar_or_violin.wav'><span>A person who plays a stringed instrument such as a guitar or violin</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=17513 data-hint-location='154188' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/what_is_the_name_of_jeff_bezoss_rocket_company.wav'>What is the name of Jeff Bezos's rocket company?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Blue Origin'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5133/green_beret.wav'><span>Green Beret</span></div><div 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