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SpaceX launches first Turkish astronaut aboard private European space mission

Axiom Space's AX-3 mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Thursday and is headed to the International Space Station with a four-person crew: Former NASA astronaut and mission commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Walter Villadei of Italy, Alper Gezeravci of Turkey, and Marcus Wandt of Sweden. The mission was funded and carried out by the private sector.

I can't exactly explain why this is true, but it is.

There are three ways white men name things.

Their last name (Dyson, Ford, Tesla Coil)

Accurately (Light bulb)

Random Bullshit because it sounds cool

2002: [Elon]: What about…. ‘Space X’?

. .

2023:

[Elon]: What about…. ‘X’?

Watching the rocket ship on the pier 🚀

Mars Rovers (plus little helicopter Ingenuity)

I recently saw a few things about robotics and how we treat them both in the real world and in fiction, along with the fact we named the Mars Rovers.

Sure, robots are programmed and can't "feel" in a typical way, but not all humans can process things all the same either. So why deny that our creations can't feel either? Opportunity's last message makes me weep every time I look at it.

For now, I hope all our little robot companions up on Mars can eventually come home.