The FAA Changed Its Definition of ‘Astronaut’ on the Same Day Jeff Bezos Went to Space

by Derek McKinney | Posted on July 23, 2021

Jeff Bezos is a lot of things. A tax-dodging megalomaniac. A Dr. Evil lookalike. A weirdly horny cowboy hat enthusiast. The one thing he isn’t—at least as far as the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned—is an astronaut.