Title says it all. I just watched Blue Origin land a bunch of rich space tourists and it’s being called a successful “mission”. IMO trying to massage egos of the vendor and participants as having something greater than an exclusive joyride with no greater purpose than to have personal bragging rights.
They are literally strapped to enough explosives to kill them many times over. It may not require any skill, but it is certainly dangerous.
Isn’t that also true of anyone taking a regular commerical flight on an airliner? There’s plenty explosive fuel in there to kill someone too
Much less dangerous, certainly, but I wouldn’t count the engine as a reason for it being a “mission” unless the mission is testing that engine
driving a car isn’t a mission
Is skydiving a mission? Is deep sea diving? Those are dangerous, but are as much novelties as these space flights.