Celebrities Criticize Blue Origin's All-Female Spaceflight Amid Mixed Reactions
Blue Origin's all-female spaceflight faces backlash from celebrities questioning its purpose while some participants defend its significance to empowerment.
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The launch from west Texas on Monday, paid for by the Amazon founder’s private space company, met with widespread derision online and countless memes – such as photos of Perry holding up a daisy in tribute to her daughter Daisy Dove Bloom and kissing the ground on her return to Earth, captioned “getting off a commercial flight in 2025 #BlueOrigin”, in reference to a spate of airline incidents this year.
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Celebrities flocked to social media to share their frustrations over the disregard of spending and resources used for the mission.
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This was the first all-female spaceflight since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's historic solo spaceflight in 1963.
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The history-making, girl-power space expedition ended up making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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Hmm. What this “mission” represents to me, a young-ish woman, is a tasteless show of wealth and physical flaunting from a group of desperate, pathetic women – the real NASA scientists excluded – for whom a million likes on Instagram is not enough.
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But calling this a win for women feels outright delusional.
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Blue Origin's recent all-female spaceflight, including celebrities like Katy Perry, has sparked significant criticism even from fellow female stars. Emily Ratajkowski and Olivia Munn have condemned the mission as superficial, highlighting the environmental costs and calling it 'gluttonous.' Munn questioned its efficacy amid pressing global issues. In contrast, crew members like Gayle King defended the mission, emphasizing its empowerment of young women. The flight, marking the first all-female mission since Valentina Tereshkova's in 1963, involved notable figures like aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, but it has been mostly viewed as a publicity stunt that overlooks systemic women's issues.
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