The ladies of blue origin are defending their historical space flight.
Hours before takeoff on Monday morning, the new female crew of the new Shepard 31 of Blue Origin, including Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez-Sat with “CBS Mornings” and approached the criticisms of their space trip.
“There is always positive and negative, always,” said Sánchez, 55, who is committed to the founder of Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos.
“And Blue Origin’s mission is for the benefit of the earth,” he said. “You should walk and ask anyone who works here how they feel this mission. I think you will drown.”
“And for me, I think it’s a bit misunderstood,” Sanchez continued. “Special for all people who make this flight possible, to be safe.”
King, 70, similarly defended the space flight and said he was helping, without suffering, the planet.
“Many people think that if you are dedicating resources, you are removing things on Earth. It is not an environment and,” he explained. “And what happens in space also benefits what is happening on earth.”
“Listen, this was my dream growing,” admitted the anchor of “CBS Mornings.” “But if it were my dream, I could see anyone who looks like me. Either, certainly a color person or a woman. That would not have legs.”
King added: “Then, now that we are the first feminine one, I know we will not be the last. And I think it opens doors to innovation and imagination.”
Sánchez, King and Perry, 40, joined the former scientist of the Nasa Aisha Bowe rockets, the Civil Rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn for Monday’s flight.
The group was carrying blue spaces aboard the new Shepard 31 of Blue Origin, which was launched at 9:30 am from the company’s western base.
The trip lasted about 11 minutes, and was the first female space trip from the solo flight of Cosmonaut Soviet Valentina Tereshkova in 1963.
Both King and Perry kissed the ground when they returned to Earth.
King’s best friend, Oprah Winfrey, was on the scene and cried the take -off. Perry’s fiance, Orlando Bloom and his daughter Daisy Dove, 4, also there. Bezos, 61, was the first person to greet women after landing.
Perry, who sang “what a wonderful world” in space, he told a journalist that he felt “super connected to love” after the flight.
“All this is for the benefit of the earth,” added the singer. “I wanted to model courage, worth and courage.”
King told CBS before the launch that he was “nervous but also very excited.”
After landing, the journalist described the trip as a flight of “a fucking in good faith.” “
“I am very proud or me right now,” King added.