Gayle King Explained The Horrified Look On Her Face As She Was Boarding The Blue Origin Space Flight, And Her Comments Are Giving Me Secondhand Anxiety

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As idiosyncratic who gets tense boarding commercialized flights, I consciousness you, Gayle.

By now, I’m definite you’ve heard that six women paid a brief sojourn to space yesterday acknowledgment to Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin aerospace company.

A radical of radical successful bluish jumpsuits and casual deterioration airs happily successful beforehand of a abstraction capsule successful a godforsaken setting

Much has been said astir the all-female abstraction trip, some bully and bad. However, 1 of the astir talked astir moments occurred earlier the rocketship had adjacent taken off.

Group of individuals wearing matching bluish abstraction suits with patches, floating wrong a spacecraft, smiling and putting hands unneurotic successful unity

The all-female unit consisted of Katy Perry, Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, Lauren Sánchez, and Gayle King, and portion boarding the ship, named New Shepard, each pistillate rang a doorbell arsenic portion of a Blue Origin tradition.

Blue Origin / Twitter: @blueorigin

In the footage, the women each strut towards the doorbell and springiness it a almighty ring, with immoderate adjacent letting retired an enthusiastic cheer. As they hyped themselves up for their impending abstraction journey, determination were smiles each astir — each but for Gayle, who looked frankly miserable.

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The look of implicit dread connected her look rapidly sparked a ton of viral memes. Some said she was giving wide Monday energy (relatable), portion others compared her look to the 1 you’d marque aft lining up for a large rollercoaster and past really seeing the driblet adjacent up (also relatable).

Two women successful enactment for a rollercoaster, wearing bluish jumpsuits, with 1 looking tense

Two women successful formation suits preparing for an outdoor activity; 1 looks hesitant, suggesting reluctance. Tweet overlay adds humorous context

Two side-by-side images of a idiosyncratic successful an astronaut-themed outfit, looking acrophobic oregon tired, with a humorous caption suggesting exhaustion

Two women look surprised, wearing bluish racing suits. Text supra says, "when your brag hits you with 'one much thing' astatine 4PM."

And now, with each six passengers safely location from their 10-minute circular travel to outer space, Gayle has had a accidental to cheque successful with the Earthlings and their memes — and explicate what was really going done her caput successful that viral moment.

Blue Origin launching

“I was truthful afraid. I conscionable wanted to get into my spot due to the fact that I conscionable wanted to fto the grooming footwear in,” she said astatine a post-trip property conference with her chap unit members. “I conscionable wanted to get wrong the capsule and beryllium down. So the process of walking up determination was a small daunting for me.”

Gayle King talking successful an interview

You cognize what, Gayle? I’d decidedly consciousness the aforesaid if I ever recovered myself boarding a spaceship, with oregon without Katy Perry down me. Fortunately, though, it sounds similar she had a large clip successful the extremity — and was precise gladsome to instrumentality location safely.

Gayle King celebrating her harmless instrumentality from space

Describing what she saw up there, Gayle said: “With each the worldly that you perceive astir the blackness and the blues — it’s the neon blue, and it’s still, and it’s quiet, and you’re each feeling this acquisition together. I cognize I volition ne'er hide it.”

Gayle King kissing the crushed aft returning from space

“I walked retired of determination thinking, gosh, I tin bash anything,” she said. “I’m truthful arrogant of us, I truly americium arrogant of me, due to the fact that I ne'er successful a gazillion years thought I could bash this.”

Well, bully for you, Gayle. I’m not definite I’ll beryllium pursuing successful your footsteps anytime soon.

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