Not everyone seems to be as joyful as Katy Perry and Gayle King about this week’s all-female Blue Origin NS-13 mission.
Amy Schumer and Olivia Wilde have been simply a few of the celebrities who took to social media to criticize the historic house launch led by Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, on Monday.
Olivia Munn, 44, was one of many first stars to ridicule the “gluttonous” mission earlier this month.
“What are they doing?” the actress stated on “Today With Jenna & Friends” on April 3. “I know this probably isn’t the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now.”
“I know this is probably obnoxious,” she continued, “but like, it’s so much money to go to space, and there’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs.”
“What’s the point? Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride? I think it’s a bit gluttonous,” Munn added on the time. “Space exploration was to further our knowledge and to help mankind. What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here?”
Schumer, 43, then took to Instagram on the day of the launch to “announce” that she had acquired a last-minute invite to affix Perry, King, and Sanchez on the New Shepard 31 spacecraft.
“Guys, last second they added me to space, and I’m going to space,” the comic, holding a Black Panther toy, joked. “I’m bringing this thing. 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.”
“Thank you to everyone who got me here,” she added. “I’ll see you guys in space.”
Wilde, like Munn, questioned the price of the Blue Origin endeavor.
“Billion dollars bought some good memes I guess,” the “Don’t Worry Darling” actress and director wrote on her Instagram Story alongside a photograph of Perry returning to Earth in Texas and kissing the bottom.
Perry, King and Sanchez have been joined by civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, ex-NASA engineer Aisha Bowe and movie producer Kerianne Flynn on Monday’s journey, which solely gave them 4 minutes in zero-gravity house.
The six-women, star-studded workforce turned the primary all-female crew to go to house since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made a solo flight again in 1963.
Nonetheless, each Sanchez, 55, and King, 70, have been conscious of the reservations many had with Bezos’ firm’s house flight this week and responded to a few of these criticisms shortly after the launch throughout a press convention.
“Anybody that’s criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is happening here,” King remarked. “We can all speak to the response we’re getting from young women from young girls about what this represents.”
“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,” Sanchez added. “They love their work and they love the mission and it’s a big deal for them.”
“So when we hear comments like that, I just say, trust me,” Bezos’ fiancée continued. “Come with me. I’ll show you what this is about, and it’s, it’s really eye opening.”
Celebrities aren’t the one ones not impressed with the star-studded house journey.
Perry was additionally slammed by the son of the 85-year-old veteran she’s suing for damages, who advised The Submit completely that he hopes her expertise “will make her more compassionate to elderly disabled veterans like my father.”
