First all-female crew launched into space
 

Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin company's ship the New Shepard (Blue Origin NS-31) launched its first 6-member all-female team for a brief space visit. The team consisted of: pop star Katy Perry, CBS anchor Gayle King, Jeff Bezo's fiancé journalist Lauren Sánchez, NASA scientist Aisha Bowe, NASA scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Nguy?n, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. The first instance of a female-manned space mission (Vostok 6) was a solo flight with cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, so this is the first instance of an all-female team in space.

I ****ing love science (and women)

Sadly, it was just a sub-Earth orbit flight.

The new norm, get to be in space, takes less effort, less time, less supplies, less space survival training, perfect for tourist industry...granted, seats are magnificiently expensive.

What I'm about to say is going to make you guys angry with me.

I say so what?! So what that all women were launched into space?! Men have been launched into space for the past 60+ years and landing on the moon, but because a group of women did it this time, it becomes an accomplishment?

Everything women self promote and self celebrate since the feminist era, men have been doing long before! I just don't find female accomplishments that big a deal considering men built, managed, maintained everything in society since forever.

I think it's time to move past this "It's the first ever all-women/all-black/all-Venazuelan/Pakistani/Egyptian" stuff. It's completely meaningless.

"This will be the FIRST TIME EVER that a woman, whose name starts with "L" gets launched into space... on a Tuesday with a launch time of 1:10! The previous Tuesday woman of L was launched at 12:10, so this is a tremendous event for DEI everywhere!"

Oh chill, it was only a side fact that it was "all women," it wasn't touted as any kind of accomplishment. If someone gets their 3-day old undies in a bunch over it and goes onto some anti-women rant and boasting about men to counter it, that's a "them (you) problem."

This whole thing has become so common now though, it's like hearing someone decided to ride the rich people's version of Tower of Terror. *shrug*

I only half paid attention and didn't realize it was his company.

That takes some guts to say "I'm going to have someone I love ride this massive tube of explosive materials into the edge of space and hope they return okay."

Should have left Perry up there.

Her post-touchdown interview tellingly sounded like somebody had cut off her oxygen up there. Weirdo.

I like this comedy video about this story. It's by Conservative Vibes, a conservative man who laughs and makes fun of liberal lunacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNSCqo8xcRE&t=2s

Most people saw a headline about "First Full Crew of Women In Space!" and cheered and thought 'We did it!'.

And then ignored that they were manipulated once again by a headline because it's easy. Ignored that it was a paid-for Bezos flight. Ignored that it was a staged marketing op for almost everyone involved.

And of course that same person will think what I'm saying has something to do with "misogyny", when in fact my commentary is about how dumb and easily swayed and mobilized the low-level person is and that I don't really have any commentary against the actual grouping of people who went to a high atmospheric position.

A true example of the rich spinning their privldged and manipulating the peasant-thinker into some modality of "virtue" so as not to be criticized for their wealth and choices.

Sounds like a ****ing idiot.

Takes one to know one.

Is it just me or is Katy Perry turning into Henry Cavill in a wig?

Would still hit it.

“Crew?” They were a bunch of tourists who took a remotely operated Uber into space and back while laughing and playing on their phones like those teenage girls at the movie theater.

Yeah, remind me to call myself "part of the crew" in the next flight I catch.

Personally, I thought that it was cool that William Shatner took a flight out.

As for the All Women Crew, I came across this article.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...rican-feminism

If anything in that blog is true, then I have some mixed feelings about that flight out.

That WAS cool. And then the same people clapping their hands about the "First All Female Crew in Space EVAR" were the ones saying, "NO! Shatner wasn't the first Star Trek actor in space!" and pointing to that astronaut black lady that had a walk-on part as a "blink and you'll miss it" extra on TNG once. Like, they couldn't stand Shatner even being given 2 seconds of admiration.

Whose did you think it was? If it wasn't his, it would've been Virgin Galactic or Elon's SpaceX and it'd still be exactly the same situation.

Shatner was actually moved by the experience. These ladies were just nonsense.

Tbh if this ever became affordable to your average person, you know good and well every single one of us would try this. Even if it's just the upper atmosphere you're still in space and experience zero gravity. I'd love to go into space just once in my lifetime but I know the odds of that are 0%

Oh one hand, it would be quite the experience. On the other... I think I'd still decline.


Didn't give it any thought as to whose. Was busy getting ready for work with the minimal Weather Channel coverage of it on the background.

Same situation? My comment was in regard to sending someone up there on your own company's rocket. Unease either way, but if it's your own and something happens? Well, then you live the rest of your life with being the one at fault.

Everything behind this was a virtue-signaling, manipulative marketing ploy on various levels.

I'd definitely still wait until we can say something to the effect of, "Taking a rocket to space is statistically very safe... only 1 in every 1000 flights end up crashing/exploding" and not something like, "1 in every 4," which it currently is.

Even if it were affordable to go up there, I still wouldn't, because I have a terrible fear of crazy fast speeds. That's why you wouldn't be successful in getting me onto an amusement park ride, except maybe a Ferris Wheel.

aren' you gay though? Excuse my ignorance on homosexuality, I don't know much about it besides my interactions with you and Andrew I don't really interact with your kind. (I consider myself superstraight, you can google that)

I mean I have no problem if you like men, but it is of my understanding that gay men are feminine, some more than others but even if you're less than others it'd still be about at least a 10% minimum + another 1/3rd for liking penises which is something women like. now we are all X and Y, so that makes all of us 50% female already, that's why we all have nipples. So even if you're a very manly man gay man you'd still be 60% more feminine which puts you more into being a woman mind than a man's mind like us straight males. Which as I mentioned we are 50% female, but because we are more masculine we get a higher percentage of male, and even those men who are not manly men would still be 10% and if they like vaginas that's another third meaning even most men without much testosterone would still be 65% and 1/3rd more male than female.

So when you're insulting females, you're really insulting 65% and 1/3rd of your own being. Now I know homosexuality is a sin but like Jesus said not to judge others, I don't mind it, he'd be the one to send you to hell according to the bible. While I can take emy 65 1/3rd and because my gooner gifs got that one dromer member banned he knows I'm straight so that gives me another 25% boost in manlyness to make sure i don't suffer the same fate because of God's sunday night at sacrifice.

Screw you! You are ignorant and a bigot because of your twisted religion!

For your information, I'm not a feminine kind of guy. I'm not the kind of gay guy that wears rainbows or tutus like a sissy little girl! I hate that.

Besides I don't know how this topic went from talking about women going up into space to talking about sexuality, besides Sdp bringing it up as a way to show his bigoted ignorance.

I’m gay with my dad

Come now, if Musk's rocket was also dick shaped his fanboys would be totally eager to ride it, but it might exp... never mind.

sdp and Nines are the best posters on the drome. You both are my favourites and you never fail to entertain me.

I love poasting with my frens. Even if you’re a bunch of gay autists, Islamo-fascists and fat black ladies!

eh, I always felt gay men think like men do, only difference being they want to boink or get boinked by other dudes. At least the 'top' type dudes. I guess the more feminine types that are more into fashion and taking hours to get ready before they leave the house are more feminine minded.

Do you feel that 80's male-rockstars were "beautiful" with their long flowing hair and often-used makeup? Asking for a friend....

Wouldn't have been too upset if the rocket went kaboom

:o

:lol::lol:

:teek: :lol::lol:

Wasn’t a SpaceX launch…

She's a pinata

https://deadline.com/2025/04/katy-pe...in-1236381120/

"her supportive fan base and concert audiences."

What, like the ones that didn't even buy enough tickets to support her last one and she had to cancel?