Celebs Who Slammed the All-Female Blue Origin Space Trip (and What the Crew Has Said)
Going to space might have been a milestone for Katy Perry, Gayle King, Laura Sánchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn, but the move has drawn as much ire as it has awe.
The first-ever all-female space flight, which took place on Monday, April 14, lasted 11 minutes total — going to the edge of space before promptly coming back. And though some saw it as a step forward in space travel, others criticized Blue Origin and the privatization of space travel, the monetary costs of production and passenger tickets, as well as the alleged high carbon emissions impacting the Earth’s environment.
King defended the move on CBS Mornings the following day, saying, “Space is not an either-or, it’s a both and, and because you do something in space doesn’t mean you’re taking anything away from Earth. And what you’re doing in space is trying to make things better here on Earth.”
She later continued, “There was nothing frivolous about what we do. So, you know, I’m very disappointed and very saddened by [the criticism]. And I also say this — what it’s doing to inspire other women and young girls? Please don’t ignore that. I’ve had so many women and young girls reach out to me, and men too, by the way. Men too that say, ‘Wow, I never thought I could do that, but I see you doing it at this stage of your life.'”
Sánchez — whose fiancé Jeff Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin — also responded to the criticism, telling PEOPLE during a press conference, “I get really fired up.”
“I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don’t just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle,” she said. “They love their work and they love the mission and it’s a big deal for them.”
Celebrities such as Olivia Munn, Emily Ratajkowski, Olivia Wilde and Amy Schumer have all spoken out against the trip, questioning the end goal and, in some cases, poking fun at the absurdity of the whole thing.
See what they had to say below.
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Olivia Munn
Olivia Wilde didn’t have much to say, but her stance was loud and clear.
The actress shared a meme on her Instagram Stories featuring two photographs of exiting the capsule back on Earth: One showed Perry holding up a daisy (a tribute to her daughter Daisy Dove Bloom) as she smiled while walking outside; the other showed the “E.T.” singer kissing the ground after stepping down.
On top of the two photos was a text that read, “getting off a commercial flight in 2025 #BlueOrigin.”
Wilde shared the meme with the message, “Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess.”
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Amy Schumer
Comedian Amy Schumer did what she does best and made fun of the whole thing.
In a video posted to Instagram on April 14, the actress joked that she had been added to “space” at the last second.
“I’m bringing this thing,” she said, showing a Black Panther figurine. “It has no meaning to me, but it was in my bag, and I was on the subway, and I got the text, and they were like, ‘Do you want to go to space?’ so I’m going to space.”
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Meg Stalter
Like Schumer, comedian Meg Stalter used her sense of humor to poke fun at the trip.
Wearing a NASA jacket and what appears to be a small dandelion (winking at Perry’s daisy) in her hair, Stalter pretended to be one of the women who had just gotten back from space, filling her audience in on the life-changing trip.
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Wendy’s
Fast food chain Wendy’s had a field day mocking Katy Perry specifically.
It started when Pop Crave posted a gorgeous photo of the singer fresh off the flight. “Katy Perry has returned from space,” they wrote. “Can we send her back,” the Wendy’s account wrote in response on X.
The account then reposted images of the singer kissing the ground after her return and wrote, “I kissed the ground and I liked it,” a callback to Perry’s hit 2008 hit song, “I Kissed a Girl.”
Another poster noted that Perry and crew were in space for 10 minutes, to which Wendy’s quipped, “Don’t short change her, it was 11 minutes.”
“I’m a woman send me to space,” the Wendy’s account continued on. “When we said women in stem this isn’t what we meant.”
Source: People
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