Blue Origin's recent space tourism flight, featuring celebrity women like Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez, was meant to promote a new era of feminine presence in space. However, the event was met with widespread ridicule on social media, questioning the authenticity of the trip and its feminist messaging. Critics highlighted the irony of promoting such flights amidst NASA's budget cuts and the antics of rival Elon Musk in reshaping space exploration. This comedic spectacle ultimately sparked discussions about genuine feminist representation and the commercialization of space travel.
Doubtless you know the contours already: Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez, pop star Katy Perry, and four other women did a big space tourism trip in the name of performative femiladyism.
This promised to be a marketing bonanza for a nation addled by spectacle. What has happened instead has been a shocking amount of backlash.
NASA mandates that those aboard the ISS do not miss leg day. Even under normal circumstances, Perry, Sanchez and the other women would be guilty of delivering stale rhetoric.
It was all happening against the insistent drumbeats of budget cuts at actual NASA, while the other rocket entrepreneur Elon Musk rearranged the agency to benefit himself.
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