Mainstream Media Attempts to Generate Excitement Over Blue Origin’s Bevy of “Glamornauts”
Meanwhile, alternative media was a little more skeptical of mission’s contribution to female power or a serious space program.
Back in 2023, I reported that after Blue Origin turned science fiction into fact, launching William Shatner, Captain James T. Kirk of “Star Trek” fame, into suborbital space, it had planned its next private space launch featuring an all-female crew.
In a move that follows the lead of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Artemis program, the billionaire Jeff Bezos-headed firm organized a mission led by his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
Today, that mission, known as NS-31, was successfully executed.
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket.
The singer was joined by Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King, who said a highlight of the flight was hearing Perry sing Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”.
After landing back on Earth, Perry said she felt “super connected to life” and “so connected to love”.
The flight lasted around 11 minutes and took the six women more than 100km (62 miles) above Earth, crossing the internationally recognised boundary of space and giving them a few moments of weightlessness.
Blue Origin is a private firm, and the Bezos team is certainly welcome to celebrate achieving its goal. Rather than attempting to emulate Musk in sending mankind to Mars, Blue Origin appears to be trying to capture the space tourism market. Hence, all the pop stars and glitterati.
“It’s about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging. And it’s about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it,” Perry added. “This is all for the benefit of Earth.”
It was also a huge benefit to Bezo’s space outfit. Prior to the highly publicized launch, all six passengers did a lengthy Elle magazine interview in which they pledged to go to space glammed up with makeup and fake eyelashes.
Blue Origin is trying to operate regular space tourism flights, and taking reservations with a $150,000 deposit. It’s not clear how much Blue Origin charges, but a seat on the company’s first crewed flight went for $28 million.
However, the attempts to make this event into a seminal “girl power” moment are imploding. Some have argued that the “glamornauts” have set feminism back due to the focus on space fashion.
Katy Perry has also been drinking from the same fountain of delusional self-indulgence: ‘I’m really excited…We are all made of stardust and it’ll be exciting to see them twinkle from that site and have such an appreciation for Mother Earth when we see it that way’. She went on to suggest the trip would encourage young girls to go into space in the future with ‘no limitations’. Really? Previous passenger trips with Blue Origin have cost more than $1 million (£760,000) a seat. Only for rich girls, then.
It has been reported that the crew trained for all of two days ahead of the trip. Rather depressingly, much of the coverage of their journey into space featured talk of flared jump suits and other fashion accessories. The female crew appeared more than happy with this agenda, saying that lipstick, eyelash extensions and hair styles matter. The bible of female empowerment, according to Katy Perry, goes like this: ‘Space is finally going to be glam…We are going to put the “ass” in “astronaut”’.
Beege Welborne of Hot Air provides the correct context of what the moment actually meant.
God bless America, no?
At least, whatever the circumstances, these frothy adventurers can say they went for a real rocket ride, and that’s pretty cool.
Whatever pretentiousness emerges afterward is no harm, no foul. Gayle King’s show is tanking – this won’t save it. Katy Perry will keep singing, Sanchez will have new surgical enhancements and won’t spare the world the viewing.
Basically, the girls went up and down, and that was that. Zero effect on our lives other than the opportunity for continued hilarity..
And, to be fair, if I were brave enough to make the ride, I am sure I would express great excitement.
Too many people making fun of this. If I went to space I’d full on lose my mind in a 13-year-old girl sort of way.
“Look at the MOON!!!!” Is perfectly reasonable.
Only thing I’d add is “It’s OURS!”
— Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle) April 14, 2025
In the end, these women are not astronauts…but glamorous space tourists. And if they are willing to help fund and promote space trips which may enhance the American space program, I am just fine with that.
But real astronauts working in space return wearing substantially less make-up.
Ummm… not to burst anyone’s bubble but Sunita Williams set records on her three flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and was stranded in space by the last administration.
The cosplay women today that did something for 10 mins was not impressive. https://t.co/gcNOlf4nHE pic.twitter.com/KEDXqNwwgK
— Jeannette Garcia (@Jnet_margarita) April 14, 2025
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“Spam in a can.” *yawn*
They didn’t need oxygen. The flight was short enough they could hold their breath the entire time.
Exactly. Blue Origin riders are what the Mercury 7 (real) astronauts refused to be.
They are not a crew except in the loosest terms. If something went wrong is the crew ready to take over and manually ride that thing down? They are a publicity stunt. Can we talk about how strange Bezo’s girlfriend looks?
Which one is the girlfriend? For that matter, which one is this “Katy Perry” I’ve heard mentioned? And who are the other four and have any of them ever accomplished anything worth mentioning?
For the record, my interest in “popular culture” ended in the mid ’90s.
Next to last photo with them sitting down on the catwalk she is the one on the left. From a distance she looks ok but up close you can tell she is all in on botox and plastic surgery. She is on her way to the weird plastic look and has an unlimited budget to do it.
I’m also not sure which one is Katy Perry but I couldn’t pick Taylor Swift or Beyonce out of a crowd either.
Ah, third from the left in the photo up top. The one that looks like a mannequin, as opposed to the wide smiles of the other five.
My experience is that if you offer to let a woman fly the plane, she declines.
Not mine. In Belize we got on a small island hopper and the pilot was quite taken with a young blond thing who was having the time of her life on vacation. The end result was her in the seat with headphones flying the plane over the water. I said “screw it, we’re on vacation” and cracked a beer.
Ty Leslie.. I disliked the barbie doll parallel. I disliked the model poses and super snug jumpsuits. That being said, you couldn’t pay me enough to go on that ride.
Rich people pay millions to travel into outer space for 10 minutes.
Rich people pay millions to travel into inner space.
One was a glam exposure. The second was a slam implosion. What would the world think if these women were involved in an accident that occurs with space flight?
Submariners with a fat purse will be slandered while fat black “guuurlz” of “glamour”
will be celebrated when the hull breaks and pressure is lost.
Ever think Bezos didn’t have that in mind when he stuffed his girlfriend and her besties into a giant penis?
When they’re not disclaiming the ability to discern what a “woman” is, and otherwise enabling and feting the invasion of girls’ and women’s sports and private spaces by obnoxiously misogynistic and malignantly narcissistic male trannies, the vile Dhimmi-crats loudly profess to celebrate women.
This wretched and hypocritical Party cannot keep its message straight.
A flight on the P-Pass Express.
Yep. “Putting the ‘ass’ in astronaut.”
Why does anything that has to do with liberal WOMYN and Trannies have to have a sexual or body part connotation?
I am a little slow on the uptake today. I have to appease the Gods of the IRS to prevent mass extinction.
I remember a day when the term cockpit was considered sexist. But ASS-tronauts is OK.
per usual, men did all the work and the women felt impressed with themselves
Seems pretty sexist for an amusement park ride.
Especially when you consider that Bezos just couldn’t resist making his rocket look like a giant c*ck. Ditto with the Amazon logo on the side of his delivery trucks… all that’s missing is the ice-cream-truck music. We call them the ‘Chester Mobile.’
As far as the Amazon logo, it depends where your mind is at.
It’s supposed to be both a smile (remember smile.amazon.com?) and an arrow demonstrating “a to z.”
I was going to make a similar comment on another thread yesterday. I chickened out no doubt due to the hours spent in sexual harassment struggle sessions when I was a corporate drone. In all fairness I was going to use the more elegant phrase “phallic abstraction” as compared to the raw naked power of Paul’s comment.
For those interested the following is a picture of Bezo’s “little man”:
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.hgHZUjG7PU6LlEogSiILMwAAAA?w=115&h=180&c=7&r=0&o=5&pid=1.7
It looks more like a roll-on deodorant.
Back in time for tax day.
This makes mockery of feminism. This is a self own.
“Glamornauts” are now officially cool? I am old enough to remember how feminists despised SciFi shows like Star Trek TOS and UFO because they featured hot women in skimpy outfits.
That was a (D)ifferent time.
A group of the richest, most coddled women in the country threw away more money than the average family will see in their entire lifetimes to spend 11 minutes cosplaying astronauts, then came back and acted like they cured cancer.
Never has there been a more obvious reason why this ‘all woman’ nonsense is being utterly rejected by men, and women with common sense.
Were there any trannies on this flight? How can this be a seminal Girl Power moment if there was not one tranny aboard?
Where is Crocodile Dundee when you need him?
Never mind trannies. What about fat girls?? What was Lizzo not included? Too fat
to make it into Bezo’s harem?
“Putting the mass in astronaut.”
Weight and balance issues. Literally.
Paula: Please some me a current example DEI.
Media: Blue Origin
Paula: Thanks for the quick response.
Ah, yes. I see I have an error in the above post. Utilizing my brand new edit button, I will now edit my comment:
“Paula: Please show me a current example of DEI.”
I like the first version better,
“…..and have such an appreciation for Mother Earth” …Katy Perry
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There’s nothing motherly about earth, or nature, for that matter…
True. If Mother Earth really existed, she’s a vengeful, violent, and utterly heartless woman.
For official insurance purposes, a severe weather event or a natural disaster is considered .”act of God” not an act of an upset or vengeful “Mother Earth”.
Mother Earth will be filing a sexual harassment complaint in due time.
She’s not happy taking a back seat to some man!
Have you met many female politicians?
Now THAT is an entirely different form of vengeful.
A few years ago Blue Origin sent Wally Funk on a similar suborbital hop. Unlike yesterday’s “glamornauts”, Funk had some serious aviation chops. She was one of the “Mercury 13” – a group of women who received training similar to the Mercury 7 astronauts – and had a distinguished career as an aviator. Funk was the only one of the Mercury 13 who actually made it to space.
I know it was all a publicity stunt, but sending Funk up was still a classy move by Bezos. Yesterday’s flight was just a silly exercise.
Clearly his plastic fiancee wanted to do it to pretend that she’s anything other than a trophy wife.
Bezo’s obtained his plastic robot before Elon was able to build one.
Blue Origin’s Marie Antoinette space capsule suffered a minor power failure on reentry.
“We used the last of the power packs to keep the hairdryers going” – Katy Perry.
“In the end, these women are not astronauts…but glamorous space tourists.”
Amen
It must boil real astronauts to hear them called an astronaut, or claim to be one
“Pop star Katy Perry and five other women”
I’m guessing Lauren Sanchez by now is realizing she screwed up. Katy Perry is overshadowing her in the news reports of their rocket ride, including this article.
Katy Perry got as much publicity for going for a 11 minute joy ride than Suni Williams did for 286 days.
11 minutes compared to 286 days! Okay then. Both are famous astronauts.
List of female astronauts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_astronauts
But, but, but, the world didn’t exist before Katy Perry!
And it won’t exist after her if she has anything to say about it.
perhaps in the minority here but why should anyone give a damn ?
The media hoopla surrounding yesterday’s flight is similar to a group of rich women engaging the services of an expensive limousine and being driven around Hollywood to be seen by the paparazzi- while simultaneously claiming this was some sort of milestone in women’s rights
It would be a mortal sin NOT to mock that sort of pretentiousness.
You can be dismissive all you want.
Let’s make space travel routine. If ‘glamournauts’ are what we have to have for this to happen, so be it.
I’m have convinced this was a way for bezos to get rid of Sanchez and make it look like an accident.
Also, really hoping he casts himself as the villain in the next Bond movie, since he owns the franchise now.
He has the look.
And the prenup.
I find it irritating that the media, as well as the article’s author, called these women “crew”.
They were PASSENGERS. Crew are the people who make the things go, which these grrlpowa! beaches certainly did not do.
Cargo.
‘Girl Power’ is just about at its peak. Every Adult should be free and feel free to make whatever choices they wish in life without a whole lot of pushback so long as those choices are legal, ethical, moral and if not enhancing society/culture then at least not undermining or destroying them.
The ‘girl power’ routine is akin to the ‘believe all women’ BS. Or the recent spate of ‘conservative’ women arguing that feminist beliefs are totes ok so long as they originate from the conservative girl boss podcast/columns/TV hits.
You can’t be conservative and a feminist. You can be conservative and in favor of equality.. but only of Real equality in all aspects of law and social interactions. Not the feminist version of ‘equality’ which still demands masculinity in the service of women but then recoil from even discussion of a corresponding duty from women. Chivalry and traditional masculine virtues are incompatible with feminism so if you want one you can’t get the other at least on a societal level. Same for the traditional feminine virtues.
I would expect they smoke Virgina Slims.
I thought their ad campaigns were pretty effective, ‘You’ve come a long way Baby’ is iconic … though murder seems a bit over the top as the subject of an ad. I read somewhere that theirs was.the last cigarette ad on broadcast TV on Johnny Carson just a few minutes before the ban went into effect.
They had no more knowledge of what was going on, and no more control over the process, than Laika, the first dog in space.
If girls want someone to encourage them toward space flight, they should look at Suni Williams, a true astronaut. And one with the flexibility to fly for months when her original mission was just a few days.
Some extremely rich guy who owns the company got his fiancee and her bridal shower a fully automated 10 min ride into space which is a pretty cool gift and I don’t fault him for that. Trying to make this a giant leap for civil rights or feminism, no, it’s not.
One small step for WOMYN, one giant leap for L’Ore’al.
Did these chicks pay for their joyride?
celebs rarely pay for anything
“if they are willing to help fund and promote space trips which may enhance the American space program”
Celebrities “enhancing the American Space Program” via Bezos’ outfit is like Disney animators :enhancing world security” by filming Marvel comics.
Or like gullible investors “enhancing the economy” by investing in FTX.
You know how politics is show business for ugly people?
Well, this is scIEnCe for TikTok “influencers.”
Looking at the Crew Bios on the Blue Origin Website (https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ns-31)
It appears that only Bowie and Nguyen have a science background (Bowie has an engineering background, and Nguyen has a bioastronautics background). None of the crew seems to be a Pilot. I’d hope that someone on the spacecraft had training to perform an abort or manual recovery in case of an accident. I do not mind space tourism. IMO, at least two crew members should be fully qualified to pilot the spacecraft.
It doesn’t sound safe to me.
It’s safer to have it fully autonomous than have space tourists making decisions about the fate of everyone in the capsule.
What no comments about evil billionaires? Where are Sanders and AOC?
True, this was a publicity stunt, but if there was a ride for aging boomer geeks with desk jobs planned, I’d be first in line to volunteer. Well, not first. Fairly sure there’d be a lot of clawing and elbowing for that spot.
You go, girls.
Sure, I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then when I shot way past 6′ in my first year of HS, I adjusted my expectations. Also re: submarines.
Today, I’m just happy they install bubble skylights over RV showers.
Gave up too soon,
The tallest person to fly in space is James “Jim” Wetherbee, an American astronaut who measured 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) tall. He flew six missions between 1990 and 2002, and commanded five of them. He also holds the record for landing the Space Shuttle more times than anyone (five). He shares the title of tallest person in space with another American astronaut, James “Ox” van Hoften, who also measured 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) tall and flew two missions in 1984 and 1985.
Guinness World Records
RE: bubble skylights over RV showers == SCIENCE!!
The weightless time and the view would be cool.
I’ve flown over 40,000 feet many times for hours on end on international flights, and I used to be pasted to the window during such flights. From that to 60,000 is significant but only 1.5 times as high.
To pay 150K to go 1.5 times as high is bonkers. But presumably these chicks got it for free (woman doesn’t pay on a date I guess?) so good for them, whatever they can get from Jeff.
Oh never mind it’s 62 miles, no wonder it looks different. Over 300,000 feet. Yeah but still, they got it for free, if I got it for free I’d probably give it a whirl, not paying a lot of money for it. It’s hardly even space. It’s not an earth orbit, which is steady-state weightlessness.
So, they accomplished less than astrochimp Ham and Alan Shepard did 64 years ago.
Looks like the worst burns weren’t from re-entry.
Ahhhhh, the feeling of accomplishment without any effort.
But…but…but……CLIMATE CHANGE!!! I don’t ever want to hear any of them cry climate change again after this.
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