First all-female crew launched into space

[triplexxx]

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.

[ToTheNines]

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

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

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

[triplexxx]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

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.

[ResidentEvil7]

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.

[Andrew NDB]

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.

[IMJ]

"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!"

[IndigoErth]

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*

Originally Posted by triplexxx

Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin company's ship the New Shepard (Blue Origin NS-31)

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."

[ZariusTwo]

Should have left Perry up there.

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

[ResidentEvil7]

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

[IMJ]

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.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by ResidentEvil7

Conservative Vibes

Sounds like a ****ing idiot.

[ResidentEvil7]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Sounds like a ****ing idiot.

Takes one to know one.

[Andrew NDB]

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

[ToTheNines]

Would still hit it.

[Stu_Padasso]

“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.

[Andrew NDB]

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

[DarkFell]

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.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by DarkFell

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

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

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

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.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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.

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