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Katy Perry’s space expedition is defended from the flood of criticism received

04/16/2025

Updated at 7:47 p.m.

It can be said that what was once controversy It has already gone to the scandal categoryjudging by the growing reactions raised and the magnitude of these. This is what is happening with the famous space flight of Katy Perry and her friends, whose criticisms have already passed to another level. Enough for one of the expeditionary, The journalist Gayle Kinghe has assured that he feels «very disappointed and sad»With everything that is happening.

«What Blue Origin wants to do is take the waste from here and find a way to send them to space so that our planet is cleaner. Jeff Bezos has many ideasand the people who work there are really dedicated to making our planet A better place. That is the first thing, ”said Gayle King in ‘CBS Mornings’ about the flight that took her five friends to become the first spatial crew composed exclusively of women.

«There is nothing frivolous in what we do», King wanted to clarify in response to criticism about the flight. «So, they know, I am very disappointed and very sad for this. And I also mean this: what is being done to Inspire other women and youth. Please do not ignore it. Many women and young people have contacted me, and also men, by the way. Men also say: ‘Wow! I never thought that I could do that, but I see you doing it at this point in your life, ‘he said in his defense.

Space trips privatization

Gayle King is one of the six components of the expedition that is mostly The reasons for the space expeditionwhatever these are, because that is being another debate. Previously, he had declared ‘People’ that “anyone who criticizes him does not really understand what is happening.”

Blue Origin flight It lasted approximately 11 minutes On Monday and it was the first full feminine crew of the company, which also included Katy Perry, the Aisha Bowe space scientist, the research scientist Amanda Nguyen, the journalist Lauren Sanchez (promised of Jeff Bezos) and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.

Blue Origin allows anyone Reserve a seat on your spacecraftrequiring in most cases a fully reimbursable deposit of $ 150,000. The company auctioned its first seat by 28 million dollars In 2021, according to ‘The New York Times’. It is not clear what passengers aboard Blue Origin’s NS-31 flight were pay customers and which were guests who flew for free.

Many of the criticism of Blue originated the privatization of space trips focused on Production costs and of the passenger tickets, as well as in the alleged High carbon emissions that affect the earth’s environment.

Katy Perry and hamburgers

The actress and model Olivia Munn He openly criticized the flight before launch. “I know that it is probably not the most cool one, but there are many other important things in the world right now,” he said during his appearance in ‘Today With Jenna and Friends’ earlier this month. «What are they going to do in space? What do they do up there?»He wondered.

Shortly after the actress and director went on stage Olivia Wildewho shared included a photo of Katy Perry coming out of the spacecraft on his return from the orbit and another photo of her kissing the ground. The meme text said: “Going down a commercial flight in 2025.” And he added: «I guess a billion dollars bought good memes».

The model Emily Ratajkowski He subsequently shared a publication on Tiktok criticizing the launch: «Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources they were allocated to send these women to space, do youAnd for what? He described everything as “one parody,” and more after watching the video published by Katy Perry with the whole group playing and making jokes inside the rocket.

Until Wendy’s hamburger chain He has entered the controversy to laugh at Katy Perry. The official restaurant account launched in X sarcastic comments against the singer. «We can send it back? ”, He published after the grounding. Far from staying there, the chain published an image of the singer kissing the ground when landing with the phrase: «I kissed the ground and I liked it». It was a parody of the well -known verse from ‘I Kissed to Girl’, one of his great successes.


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