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JabavuAdams on Oct 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amateur rocket launch reaches 121,000 feet

It all depends whether you're using that metric, though -- it's all fairly arbitrary. X15 pilots were considered astronauts for exceeding 100k ft.

tzs on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

The threshold was 50 miles for X-15 pilots to be considered astronauts, which is 264k feet.

JabavuAdams on Oct 22, 2011 | [–]

I knew I should have looked that up. Fuck! Thanks.

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