04-21-2025, 03:23 PM
(04-14-2025, 03:15 PM)FlyersFan Wrote: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/li...rcna200921
You've all heard about it - the all-female Origin flight crew that went up with 6 women for 11 minutes to the edge of space and then returned. Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sanchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Kerrianne Flynn.
My rant ...
First of all, it wasn't a 'flight crew'. A crew are people who are on board and doing work and flying the machine. This was a flight with six PASSENGERS. They did nothing. And that's fine if they did nothing, because they were just tourists, just passengers. But don't call them 'crew'.
Second, the cabin had microphones and everyone on Earth heard everything the women said and did. Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez screamed bloody murder all while the takeoff was taking place, and then screamed again during reentry and especially when the parachutes deployed.
Gayle King had done an interview before hand and did the usual 'this is important for women' kind of thing about this being an all female passenger manifest. (no it's not important for women, but of course this is what she was pushing). So with this being so important for women ... she and Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez spent their time screaming like 10 year old girls going on Space Mountain in Disney World. I'm sure any real female astronauts who were watching were thinking ... what the hell?
It was EMBARRASSING for women. Man up ladies!
And third, the 11 minute ride cost $300,000 each. I"m sure none of them paid for it themselves. I'd bet a box of donuts on that one. I suppose it doesn't matter who pays for it .... but it's annoying that it costs that much money and someone has it to throw away on screaming ninny celebrities for an 11 minute joyride when the money could be used for so many other good things for people. I suppose if those women weren't such ninnies I wouldn't have minded as much.
There ... that's my rant. (and for those who don't know .. I"m a woman).
They could get those idiots to the edge of space for a publicity moment but couldn't manage to get their craft to the ISS to rescue the real astronauts they stranded there when their craft was deemed unsafe for human travel. Thats what rubs me the wrong way here...you already had a pretty important high publicity task...and you failed at that...but you can get a wholly inconsequential publicity flight up to the edge of space for these idiots.
