Gayle King ‘Very disappointed’ by criticism of blue origin SpaceFlight
Gayle King Returns to critics of the recent space travel of the all-Women Blue Origin.
“I certainly read some of the things that come online from people I know, who I like, that I consider friends,” the CBS mornings Host, 70, told Entertainment tonight In an interview published on Tuesday 15 April, only 24 hours after she and five other women came about 11 minutes of space.
King, Katy Perryfilmmaker Kerianne Flynnactivist of civil rights Amanda NguyenFormer Nasa Rocket Scientist Aisha Bowe and Blue Origin FoundeR Jeff Bezos‘Fiance, Lauren SánchezHistory written Monday, April 14, because they became the first all-women crew on board a space travel since the Russian Kosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova‘s Solo Trip from 1963.
However, the journey has received criticism from people Olivia wanted And Emily Ratajkowskiwho expressed himself against the expensive journey in the midst of a living crisis in the US and its impact on the environment.
Gayle King responds to the return around the completely female space travel of Blue Origin: “I am very disappointed … What it does to inspire other women and young girls that don’t.” pic.twitter.com/je7v61dgr3
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“This is what I would say to that: space is not or/or, it is both/and because you do something in space, does not mean that you take something away from the earth, and what you do in space, tries to make it better here on earth,” said King Entertainment tonight. “What Blue Origin wants to do is take the waste here and find a way to place it in space to make our planet cleaning. Jeff Bezos has so many ideas, and the people who work there are really dedicated and committed to make our planet a better place.”
King added: “Did you have been? If you have been and you still feel like that after you come back, please let us have a conversation.”
“So I am very disappointed and very sad,” King said about the criticism and noted that she received messages from women and girls who are inspired by the spatial crew of All-Women.
King also called people who called the trip a ‘ride’, and noticed that ‘when a man goes up, you have never said to an astronaut,’ boy, what a ride! “”
“We have duplicated the same route Alan Shepard Did almost in the day, “King explained.” Nobody called that a ride. It was called a flight, it was called a trip, because a ride implies that it is something frivolous or something that is light. “
“There was nothing frivolous about what we did, and the machine we were on, and what was needed for the people to get that machine to work, to pick us up and get us back safely,” she continued.
