Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fellow Blue Origin space travelers might not qualify to receive Federal Aviation Administration-awarded astronaut wings for their Tuesday flight.
The agency’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation changed its eligibility rules for its Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program on Tuesday, the same day the four passengers launched in the New Shepard, to require that recipients perform some activity related to public or human flight safety during the flight.
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