Embarrassing All Female Origin Flight 'Crew'

[MichSwampbuck]

Gee, if I were to sell our house and we took out all of our savings the wife and I could take an eleven minute flight into space?

I don't care if I was a millionaire, I would not spend that much to take a ride.  I took flying lessons years back, and flue a piper cherokee around and that was fun, because I was flying a plane.  Better than the cessna I flew the first time, the heater in the cessna was not very good in the winter.

I think flying a little plane around the local area looking at things would be way more fun than going up into space.

Yeah, flying a small plane would scare the hell out of me, but is way cooler that an 11 minute ride into space. That short ride sounds like the "Power Tower" attraction at the Cedar Point Amusement Park in Ohio that is far cheaper and probably just as thrilling.

www.cedarpoint.com

[Sirius]

I wonder what is part two of the show, everyone is nice and upset now and ready for new information. The pope also just passed. Will it be a great spectacle? 

[rickymouse]

Yeah, flying a small plane would scare the hell out of me, but is way cooler that an 11 minute ride into space. That short ride sounds like the "Power Tower" attraction at the Cedar Point Amusement Park in Ohio that is far cheaper and probably just as thrilling.

www.cedarpoint.com

I wanted to learn how to fly a plane in case I was flying somewhere with someone and they had a health incident.  That way I could at least get to where I was going and land the plane. I had two friends that owned airplanes, but every time they asked me if I wanted to go flying with them, I was super busy doing building so eventually they quit asking.  One of those guys when he got real old crashed his plane into a communication or tv tower and he died.  The other one sold his plane after he got a stroke I think, but still belongs to some kind of flyers club I think...just doesn't fly anymore because one of his hands is kind of messed up from the stroke he had.

When I flew the Cessna with the instructor, It felt like we were going backwards over the land below.  I asked him how come we were not going anywhere, he was entering some stuff in some kind of book, probably recording what I was learning.  He looked up and said we were going backwards, saying the head wind speed there was probably faster than we were going, then pushed the throttle in and we started moving forward again.  That seemed so crazy, the speed was supposed to be almost seventy five if I remember right, you needed sixty something to stay up...but we were going backwards.  On my first flight, I was more interested in going as slow as I could, till I learned how to fly.  He had told me the minimum speed for the cessna to fly and I was above that by maybe ten miles per hour, but going backwards....actually really cool...you can just sit in one spot and float if you got the right wind.  Boy was that Cessna loud, you had to wear Headphones and a mike to talk to the instructor, the cherokee was so quiet and warm.

[argentus]

Wow a lot of hate welling up for this joy ride I see.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/katy-perry-re...48147.html

I guess because only the super privileged get to do it.

There wasn’t as much hating on Shatner when he did it.

But Joan Collins got a dig in.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...42820.html

I guess the world has become a more hateful place 3 years later?

I think yours is an accurate analysis.  

Are these women "astronauts"?  No.   Never claimed to be.   They were people that a private citizen (Bezos) compiled to cram aboard his experimental rocket.   Consider this:   Bezos might have considered them to be expendible, including his fi·ancé.   I can see him saying to himself, "Lord, give me a sign."   

I don't get all the hate toward them.   Rich people do rich things.   I think it was a moving experience for them, and that's okay with me.   I will never get the opportunity to do the same, but I would in a heartbeat, IF my Darlin' would go also, but she would NEVER go, so I won't ever do so either.   In short, I am envious of them, and I hope they had the time of their lives. 

[Shoshanna]

Maybe they had to call them "flight crew" to try and limit liability like the OceanGate submersible weren't "passengers" they were "mission specialists"

Paying customers on board the Titan submersible were not referred to as 'passengers' as part of a bid to avoid severe legal repercussions if anyone died, a former consultant to OceanGate claimed in an interview with the New Yorker.

https://www.businessinsider.com/titan-su...023-7?op=1

[RickyD]

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.