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Nobody successful each of Oz, nary Wizard that determination is oregon was, is ever going to bring her down.
It's been a small implicit a week, and we're inactive holding abstraction for erstwhile Blue Origin's all-female unit defied gravity for a fewer minutes.
On April 14, CBS Mornings co-anchor Gayle King, aerospace technologist Aisha Bowe, probe idiosyncratic Amanda Nguyen, movie shaper Kerianne Flynn, Jeff Bezos' fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and Katy Perry embarked connected a suborbital flight, reaching the fourth-highest aboriginal of the Earth's atmosphere.
The New Shepard NS-31 unit was the archetypal clip an all-female unit had been to abstraction successful 60 years, but the voyage was inactive heavy criticized earlier the vessel adjacent took flight.
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Olivia Munn reacted to the Blue Origin crew's travel portion co-hosting Today With Jenna & Friends, saying, "There are truthful galore different things that are truthful important successful the satellite close now. What are you guys going to bash up successful space?"
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"And by the way, if you privation to spell to space, wherefore bash you request to archer america astir it? You know?" Olivia continued. "Just spell up there, person a bully time, travel connected down. Also, I conscionable deliberation astir — I cognize this is astir apt obnoxious but it's truthful overmuch wealth to spell to space. There's a batch of radical who can't adjacent spend eggs. Oh my God, if they bring eggs into space!"
Emily Ratajkowski shared a video connected her TikTok calling the abstraction ngo "end-time shit" and its intent is "beyond parody."
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"Saying that you attraction astir Mother Earth, and it's astir Mother Earth, and going up successful a spaceship that is built and paid for by a institution that's single-handedly destroying the planet? Look astatine the authorities of the world, and deliberation astir however galore resources went into putting these women into space, and for what? For what, what was the selling there? And past to effort to marque it similar … I'm disgusted. Literally, I'm disgusted."
After the vessel landed, Gayle responded to the backlash, saying, "I consciousness that anybody that's criticizing doesn't truly recognize what is happening here. I've heard it, we've each heard it."
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"I anticipation that they volition bash a heavy dive into what this represents. We tin each talk to the effect we're gettign from young women, young girls astir what this represents," she added. "This is truly a batch of work, what went into getting america up and getting america down."
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But, contempt Gayle and the different women's efforts to quell the complaints, the backlash persisted. However, connected the reddish carpet for the Time 100 Gala connected April 24, Gayle proved that she's rising supra the hate.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Gayle said, "I'm not adjacent focusing connected backlash."
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"What I cognize is that we did thing that was incredible. All of america consciousness arrogant and brave of what we did, and I cognize the quality it's making for young women and girls and adjacent immoderate boys. So, I'm not focusing connected negativity."
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When asked if she would instrumentality different travel to outer space, Gayle said, "I'm not going backmost anytime soon, but I'm decidedly unfastened to it."
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According to THR, Gayle "felt safe" being portion of the all-female Blue Origin unit traveling to space. "It's unusual to consciousness harmless for thing that's truthful dangerous, and I cognize inherently it's precise dangerous. But I had specified spot successful however we were trained and the company," she said. "So yes, I would decidedly see it."
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Although it seems similar a parody written and directed by Adam McKay, the all-female Blue Origin wholly got into a spaceship, and everyone wholly had beardown opinions astir it.
But, if you deliberation the backlash volition crushed Gayle King, you person different happening coming — due to the fact that she's down for circular two.
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