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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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  1. Celebrities criticize all-female rocket launch: ‘This is beyond parody’

    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.

    Celebrities criticize all-female rocket launch: ‘This is beyond parody’

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  2. Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez Landed Safely -- Then Came the Memes

    This was the first all-female spaceflight since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's historic solo spaceflight in 1963.

    Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez Landed Safely -- Then Came the Memes

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  3. Blue Origin’s Female Space Mission Mocked Mercilessly By Stars, Wendy’s

    The history-making, girl-power space expedition ended up making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

    Blue Origin’s Female Space Mission Mocked Mercilessly By Stars, Wendy’s

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  4. The Blue Origin lady spaceflight was desperate, sad and tasteless

    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.

    The Blue Origin lady spaceflight was desperate, sad and tasteless

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Updated: Apr 15th, 2025, 3:32 PM ET

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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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