The Blue Origin Space Flight “Only for Women” by Jeff Bezos, with his fiancee or Katy Perry as crew, completes his mission | People
The last time an exclusively female crew traveled to space was in 1963, when Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova piloted the Vostok 6 around the earth as the only crew of the ship. 62 years have needed to repeat the feat on Monday, April 14, but this time there have been six women who have shared the experience aboard the rocket New Shepard, From the Blue Origin space company, owned by Jeff Bezos – although little has to do with the complex three -day mission of the Russian with this new anecdotal journey of less than 11 minutes. The journalist and promised of the magnate, Lauren Sanchez, has led this mission in which she has been accompanied by pop star Katy Perry, the journalist and presenter of CBS Gayle King, the Aisha Bowe Aisha Bowe engineer, activist Amanda Nguyen and the producer Kerianne Flynn.
The launch has taken place at half past eight in the morning in Texas (local time), and has been broadcast live by the aerospace transport company since the previous half hour. Lauren Sanchez has arrived in a vehicle driven by Bezos himself, which has accompanied the group of women practically so far from takeoff and has said goodbye to his fiancee with several kisses. “I love you all,” said the tycoon before leaving the ship to leave all the prominence to them. Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian, good friends of Sanchez, have witnessed the back count from Texas. “We are very proud,” they have commented during the broadcast, which has also been carried out by a team of entirely feminine presenters and reporters. Among the public, Daisy, Katy Perry’s four -year -old daughter and actor Orlando Bloom, who has come to see the great moment of her mother dressed as Astronaut; Oa Oprah Winfrey, who has gone to encourage her best friend, Gayle King. “I envy them because there is only once in which you can participate in an exclusively feminine first mission,” said the almighty presenter, ensuring that he would have liked to be part of her.
This is the eleventh spatial mission of Blue Origin, after the tenth was carried out on February 25, in which a Spaniard, the explorer and presenter Jesús Calleja traveled for the first time. “The astronauts of New Shepard They amount to space more than triple the speed of sound. They cross the line of karm, the internationally recognized limit of the space, 100 kilometers on the earth, before unraveling the belts to float in anxiety and contemplate our planet. The crew returns gently with parachute, ”describes the Blue Origin experience.
No images have been seen inside the capsule during the transmission, but the cries of the crew members have been heard, who have begun the descent shortly after four minutes and have reached the ground at ten and a half minutes. Sanchez has been the first to step on the ground and Bezos has received it with a big hug that he has later repeated with the rest of the crew. “There was a feeling of happiness, camaraderie and thanks,” said Sanchez visibly excited after the experience. Perry has left the second, with a Margarita in his hand in tribute to the name of his daughter Daisy, and the first thing he has done has been to kiss the floor – a gesture that King has later repeated. “I am super -consisting of love,” said the singer, who has sung What Firm World during the flight.
Sanchez and Perry have been the most visible faces of this adventure and have not stopped sharing content related to the mission since the news was confirmed last February. “What am I going to wear?” It was the first question that the singer of Roaraccording to the beginning of April in a report of Elle which gathered the entire crew for its cover. “Seriously, I’ve been wanting to go to space for almost 20 years,” he confessed. The artist’s concern for the model of takeoff was also shared by Bezos’s fiancee – the second richest man in the world. “You know, usually these costumes are made for a man,” Sanchez criticized in an interview with The New York Times. It may seem like a frivolous issue or a whim of rich presumed, but the truth is that Sanchez is right. In 2019, for example, a flight manned by two women had to be canceled because NASA did not have two space costumes that fit both. In the end they sent a man and a woman.
This time, the six women aboard New Sephard They have dressed costumes specifically for them, adapted to their bodies and devised by Fernando García and Laura Kim, co -founders of the Mons brand – who are also creative directors of Oscar de la Renta. The crew have worn a suit made of fire -resistant elastic neoprene with flared pants, instead of the company’s bright fabric uniform, much more loose. “The simplicity was important, as well as comfort and adjustment. But we also wanted something that was a little risky, like a motorcycle suit. Or a ski suit. Flattering and sexy,” Garcia defined it in statements to the US newspaper.
So much posture has made voices outlined that have criticized the message that this flight can move, presented as a feminist milestone that will boost the scientific vocation in girls, but sometimes promoted as a pretentious catwalk. “The space will finally be glamorous,” Perry said in the meeting with Elle “After the interviewer suggested that it is the first time someone goes to space” with the hair and makeup arranged ” -. “We are going to have eyelash extensions flying in the capsule!” Sanchez then joked. Producer Kerianne Flynn said she already had a look: “I jumped in Dubai parachute with a similar hairstyle to make sure I would do well, I tried it as an essay.” It is this kind of comments that made, for example, actress Olivia Munn described the trip as ostentatious and unnecessary in a political and economic climate like the current one. “I know that it is not the most interesting to say it, but there are so many other important things in the world right now … if you want to go to space, why do you need to tell us? Go up, spend it well and go down. I know that this is probably upset, but it costs a lot of money to go to space, you know? And there are many people who can’t even buy eggs,” he criticized in the program Today with Jenna & Friends.
Others defend that these women do not lose their identity to travel to space and remember that the same as a sumptuous is this flight like any of the previous 10, in which Jeff Bezos, the actor of Star Trek William Shatner or former football player Michael Straham. “This is a group of people who challenge themselves with new opportunities. But that does not mean that they cannot contribute joy, humor and even glamor to the experience,” said another collaborator about Munn’s attacks.
NASA’s former member and founder of the Equity Space Alliance association recently recalled in an interview with Page Six That these missions do not consist of “fun walks, but in trying to overcome the limits, collect data and shape the future.” This specific mission, he says, includes benefits such as the collection of biomedical data, testing the capacities of spacecraft for future research or inspiring girls and marginalized communities to follow careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem).
Amanda Nguyen, another of the ship’s crew, said in Elle that this is precisely its main motivation. “Flight for two people: one, of course, is my community, as the first woman Vietnamese to go to space. The other, are all survivors of sexual violence. Gender violence is one of the main reasons why so many women in the Stem areas do not continue with her training, and I was one of them,” said the American of Vietnamese origin, which became a renowned activist – La Paz in 2019 – after being raped while attending his last semester at Harvard University, where he formed as an astronaut. Although his face is less visible than that of Katy Perry or Lauren Sanchez, it is also an example that some messages and others can be compatible. “I think it is very important that people see us like this. With this dichotomy between engineering and science, but also beauty and fashion. We are a lot. Women are a lot. And I’m going to use lipsticks,” Nguyen anticipated two weeks before takeoff.
