Watch zero gravity inside Blue Origin space flight with Katy Perry
Katy Perry, Gayle King and four other women experienced zero gravity as they reached the edge of space on Blue Origin.
If celebrity space travel is the news of the day, so is celebrity criticism of celebrity space travel.
In a TikTok posted Monday, model and actress Emily Ratajkowski spoke out against a mission that same morning that sent stars like Gayle King and Katy Perry into space.
“That space mission this morning? That’s end times (expletive),” she told followers. “This is beyond parody.”
Perry and King joined journalist Lauren Sánchez and three others Monday for a brief flight to space in a capsule built by Blue Origin, the intergalactic exploration company founded by Sánchez’s billionaire fiancé Jeff Bezos.
The mission, the first for an all-female space crew since 1963, was marketed as a feminist landmark − a chance to see mothers and female storytellers launch toward the heavens. Critics, however, lambasted it as a ploy to promote Blue Origin’s pricey tickets to space and called out the contradiction of touting environmental concern despite contributing to pollution.
“Saying that you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s singlehandedly destroying the planet,” Ratajkowski continued. Bezos, who is set to wed Sánchez later this year, is also the founder and chief executive of Amazon.
Both Sánchez and Perry said their 11-minute jaunt to space had made them more appreciative of earthly existence.
“Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space for what?” Ratajkowski said. “I’m disgusted. Literally, I’m disgusted.”
She wasn’t the only star to voice dissent. In a post to her Instagram stories Monday, actress Olivia Wilde reposted a meme of Perry kissing the ground after leaving the capsule and wrote, “Billion dollar bought some good memes I guess.”
Ratajkowski and Wilde’s criticisms follow similar comments from Olivia Munn, who said during an appearance on “Today” earlier this month that the whole mission seemed “gluttonous.”
“I’m just saying this. I know this is probably not the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now,” she said.
“It’s so much money to go to space,” Munn added, later pointing out that all the rocket fuel can’t be good for the planet. “There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs … I think it’s a bit gluttonous.”
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