Backlash over the Blue Origin flight: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week

Backlash over the Blue Origin flight: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week

The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.

Everyone Who Chimed In on Blue Origin All-Female Flight

Everyone Who Chimed In on Blue Origin All-Female Flight

Blue Origin flight is one giant leap backward for feminists - Washington Examiner

Space travel is one of human civilization’s greatest accomplishments. Yet, it’s hard to argue that humanity’s latest voyage into space hasn’t tainted this achievement. With Blue Origin‘s space flight on Monday, six women were passengers on a commercial trip to space. It is a neat story, but far from any kind of triumph. Yet, inexplicably, it was hailed as a feminist milestone. It’s indicative of how low the bar has become for contemporary femini…

Blue Origin all-female flight: one giant leap back for womankind?

An all-female crew has journeyed to the edge of space for the first time in 60 years. But, while Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was showered with praise for her solo mission in 1963, the women on this week's Blue Origin flight have attracted almost universal criticism.The 11-minute trip was a "morally vacuous" stunt for Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, said Jessica Grose in The New York Times.…

The Blue Origin Flight Was the Worst Thing I've Ever Seen

Screenshot // YouTubeI have to admit I had a bit of a childish reaction to this week’s star-studded, highly publicized Blue Origin space flight. Leading up to the event, I was proudly and vocally in the “who cares?” camp, brushing off the entire stunt like a pesky fly in my face. But as it drew nearer I found myself doing googles in my free time. I searched for things like “are they even going to actual space” (yes, barely but still technically)…