• dalekcaan@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    …made the trip to the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space – to float about, weightlessly, in the rocket’s capsule for three minutes

    So they literally flew to the very edge of what’s technically space, stayed there three minutes, then left. It’s like a US citizen driving to the border with Canada, stepping over, waiting three minutes, and declaring yourself a worldly traveler. As performative as it gets.