Blue Origin Crew Defend Trip to Space Amid Celeb Backlash

The national secretary of the Ecologists is the star Katy Perry and her eleven-minute flight aboard the fusee of Blue Origin. And yet, how many women have been able to go into space?

Jessica Chastain takes aim at Blue Origin's controversial space...

Jessica Chastain is the latest star to call out the all-female crew of Blue Origin's New Shepard -- which included Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King -- and took off for outer space this week.

It’s OK To Feel Complicated About Amanda Nguyen & The Blue Origin Flight

Chris Saucedo/SXSW Conference & Festivals/Getty ImagesTrigger Warning: This piece contains references to sexual violence.Blue Origin’s “historic all-female flight” took its 11-minute voyage on April 14 and... well. People had feelings. About space tourism, about Jeff Bezos, about Katy Perry singing to her fellow “crew members” as they descended back to Earth — it was all a big hot mess. It’s easy to say that this was a huge waste of money and a …

Actresses Olivia Munn and Olivia Wilde mock all-female trip to space: 'Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride?'

Actress Olivia Munn called out the recent all-female space crew for "gluttonous" spending after the celebrity-laden event was glorified as a landmark achievement for women. An all-female celebrity crew went into what is technically considered space this week, and was publicized as a benefit for "humankind."

Katy Perry, Gayle King Launch On Blue Origin Rocket - Videos from The Weather Channel

Singer Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King were part of a six-woman crew launched into space from West Texas Monday. They trip came aboard a rocket built by Blue Origin, owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. Also on board were Bezo’s fiance Lauren Sanchez: former NASA engineer Aisha Bowe; Amanda Nguyen, a scientist and advocate for sexual violence survivors; and film producer Kerianne Flynn. The 10-minute flight took the women up to more than…

Bananas: Take a giant leap

After waiting nearly an hour beyond the scheduled time for lift off so some of the crew members could finish getting ready for their big date with the sky, the team at Blue Horizon made herstory this past week by having an all-female crew pierce the atmosphere to become only the third such gynocentric space mission since the Russians sent some broad into space back when they were still practicing communism and Raylene was taking a smoke break ne…