Emily Ratajkowski is giving her two cents about yesterday’s all-female Blue Origin space mission.
On April 14th, Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez ( Jeff Bezos’ fiancée), Gayle King (CBS journalist), Kerianne Flynn (film producer), Aisha Bowe (former NASA rocket scientist), and Amanda Nguyen (bioastronautics research scientist and sexual violence survivor advocate) went into outer space.
The Blue Origin all-female crew, including Katy Perry, have launched into Space. pic.twitter.com/18Oo6GAnOa
— Pop Base (@PopBase) April 14, 2025
The 11-minute mission was led by Lauren Sanchez, who wanted to open space travel up to women by redesigning space suits to be more flattering to the female figure. Ahead of the mission, Katy Perry commented in an interview with Elle, saying:
“Space is going to finally be glam. Let me tell you something. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the “ass” in astronaut.”
Given that their mission launched the women right past the Kármán line, the 62-mile (100 km) altitude considered the boundary of space, these women were not orbiting the Earth. Because of this, there is some question of whether the “flattering” space suits would be functional during a more serious mission.
The brief exit from the atmosphere also led to Katy Perry getting blasted online after kissing the ground once they were back on Earth. Many social media users were trolling her for acting like she was a NASA astronaut who was stuck in space for nine months.
Katy Perry kissing the ground like she'd been stranded on the ISS for months or was drifting home on Apollo 13 is peak 2025.
— Chesty (@ChestyPullerGst) April 14, 2025
"katy perry going to space!!"
The actual trip: pic.twitter.com/JK4mOyuiKY— solcito (@_valkyriecroft) April 14, 2025
You mean to tell me this whole short shack of shit was for a trip that lasted 11 minutes total? https://t.co/jFy1pkjkNa
— Hunter Heilman (@HungerHuman) April 14, 2025
After the mission, the general public’s outlook was that it felt a little silly. Sure, it’s super cool to launch an all-female crew into space, but given the shortness of the trip, with no other goal other than to test out these flattering suits, it left the public confused. Not to mention the way it was spoken about leading to the rocket’s launch, everyone thought that they would be in space for a more extended period of time.
One person who took to social media blasting the mission is Emily Ratajkowski. The model who was last romantically linked to Shaboozey took to social media after the mission, noting that she thought the whole thing was “disgusting.”
“That space mission this morning? That’s end time sh*t. Like, this is beyond parody.
That you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet?
Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space. For what? For what? What was the marketing there? And to try and make it like…I’m disgusted. Literally, I’m disgusted.”
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And then she followed up with even more thoughts in another video:
“The truth is, having a man who has gained his power and become part of the 1% purely through exploitation and greed, deciding to take his fiancée and a few other famous woman to space for space tourism is not progress…
Most people on planet Earth are worried about paying rent or having dinner for their kids… privilege is not an accomplishment. And exploitation is certainly not an accomplishment. And then being able to take the privilege you’ve gained from exploitation and greed of the planet, of resources , of human beings and then doing something like going to space for 11 minutes certainly isn’t an accomplishment. This is giving ‘Hunger Games,’ right? We need to discern what real progress looks like.”
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Em Rata clearly blasts the mission from a political point of view, but the overarching message is probably in a line with a lot of our feelings. This mission felt like a dumb use of resources and funding. And let’s be real, she’s right in a lot of ways… “space tourism” hosted by one of the richest men in the world for his fiancée and some of her famous friends isn’t exactly this beacon of “progress.” It’s more like a publicity stunt… and Katy even used it as such. She announced some concert dates from space.
Space suits need to be functional more than fashionable, and I’m sure any real astronaut would agree that they don’t care what they wear in space as long as it keeps them alive and safe.
