That Blue Origin flight was a success but isn't landing well among some stars: 'Disgusted'

Earth to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin: This week’s fleeting abstraction motorboat featuring an all-female unit was a wasteful, performative and tone-deaf endeavor reminiscent of the “Hunger Games” dystopia — according to author, exemplary and histrion Emily Ratajkowski.

The outspoken “My Body” writer did not mince words Tuesday arsenic she continued to knock Monday’s Blue Origin formation that launched six women including Katy Perry, Gayle King and Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez into space. The endeavor, which had been heavy hyped and promoted for much than a month, lasted lone 11 minutes from takeoff to landing. (Previous Blue Origin flights, including the 2021 motorboat with “Star Trek” icon William Shatner, were arsenic arsenic brief.)

Ratajkowski dissected the New Shepard rocket ngo successful a TikTok video posted Tuesday morning, claiming that the women-led inaugural was not arsenic progressive arsenic it seemed. While Monday’s personage motorboat was the nation’s archetypal spaceflight wherever women filled each spot and “optically looks similar progress,” Ratajkowski alleged, the “truth” was that Amazon enforcement Bezos conscionable wanted to “take his fiancée and a fewer different celebrated women to abstraction for abstraction tourism.”

“It conscionable speaks to the information that we are perfectly surviving successful an oligarchy wherever determination is simply a tiny radical of radical who are funny successful going to abstraction for the involvement of getting a caller lease connected beingness portion the remainder of the population, astir radical connected satellite Earth, are disquieted astir paying rent oregon having meal for their kids,” she said.

She added elsewhere successful her video: “Being capable to instrumentality the privilege that you person gained from exploitation and greed of the planet, of resources of quality beings, and doing thing similar going to abstraction for 11 minutes is not an accomplishment.”

Tuesday’s video was the 2nd Ratajkowski shared reacting to Monday’s launch. In a clip posted soon aft the Blue Origin unit returned to Earth, Ratajkowski said the abstraction travel resembled “end times s—” and was “beyond parody.” She besides called retired the discrepancies betwixt the biology messaging surrounding the formation and the resources expended to nonstop the women to space.

“I’m disgusted,” she said.

Blue Origin, founded successful 2000 by Bezos, declined Monday to accidental however overmuch the flight, a speedy up-and-down travel from westbound Texas, outgo oregon who paid for what. The motorboat precedes Sanchez and Bezos’ Venice, Italy, wedding successful 2 months.

Ratajkowski hasn’t been the lone prima to explicit disdain for the Blue Origin formation connected societal media. “Don’t Worry Darling” director-actor Olivia Wilde successful a since-expired Instagram communicative reacted to the flurry of jokes inspired by the launch. “Billion dollars bought immoderate bully memes I guess,” she said sarcastically.

Comedian Amy Schumer besides poked amusive astatine the formation Monday, joking she was a last-minute summation to the eclectic pistillate crew. “I’m going to abstraction and convey you to everyone who got maine present and I’ll spot you successful space,” she said successful an intentionally vapid-sounding voice, repeating the connection “space” galore times.

Even earlier Blue Origin’s New Shepard lifted disconnected with movie shaper Kerianne Flynn, idiosyncratic Amanda Nguyen, erstwhile NASA technologist Aisha Bowe and the others successful tow, “Your Friends and Neighbors” prima Olivia Munn dubbed the spaceflight a “gluttonous” stunt. During her April 3 impermanent spot connected “Today With Jenna and Friends,” Munn questioned the intent of the travel amid much pressing societal and governmental issues.

“It’s truthful overmuch wealth to spell to abstraction and there’s a batch of radical who can’t adjacent spend eggs,” she said earlier further scrutinizing media sum of the endeavor.

After returning from space, “CBS Mornings” co-host King told People connected Monday that critics “don’t truly recognize what is happening here” and said she and her chap passengers person heard “from young women, from young girls astir what this represents.”

Sanchez took different attack to the criticism, telling the outlet she invites skeptics to “come to Blue Origin and spot the thousands of employees” that she said person devoted themselves to the New Shepard and the mission.

The writer and journalist, engaged to billionaire Bezos for astir 2 years, added: “When we perceive comments similar that, I conscionable say, ‘Trust me. Come with me. I’ll amusement you what this is about, and it’s, it’s truly eye-opening.’”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.