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Blue Origin’s all-female crew blasts
off with Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez on
board — then returns safely to Earth

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Posted By: Imright, 4/14/2025 10:47:01 AM

And they’re off like a firework. Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket took off Monday morning with its star-studded, glammed-up, all-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, and “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King. The New Shepard 31 soared through the Texas sky with the three celebrities and crew mates Amanda Nguyen, Aisha Bowe, and Kerianne Flynn, who enjoyed around just a few minutes in space before returning to earth as part of an 11-minute historic space tourism flight.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Namma 4/14/2025 11:00:55 AM (No. 1932162)
does this qualify for the title of Astronaut ? Bet the media believes it does
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Reply 2 - Posted by: vrb8m 4/14/2025 11:00:56 AM (No. 1932163)
Must be studying the effects of outer space on botox and silicone.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Californian 4/14/2025 11:14:39 AM (No. 1932167)
Blue Origin running their business based on feminist virtue signaling might explain why they started long before SpaceX and are now way behind.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: valinva 4/14/2025 11:15:18 AM (No. 1932168)
A very expensive carnival ride.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jalo1951 4/14/2025 11:16:09 AM (No. 1932170)
And why am I supposed to care? Overly made up and coiffed women are now going to turn me into a liberal/progressive/commie supporter? Because they were weightless for 4 minutes? Not going to happen. They were no different than your kids riding in the backseat of your van while you drive. They contribute nothing meaningful to the journey. I imagine we will be seeing a Cover Girl or shampoo commercial shot in "space". I am waiting for an environmental impact report on the pollution the rocket caused blasting off. I mean it was evil to pour all those pollutants into our air. There is not one person in the whole bunch that I find impressive or worth spending time with.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 4/14/2025 11:17:27 AM (No. 1932172)
How many organizations are launching people into space now. Besides Blue Origins, there is NASA, SpaceX, and Boeing? Think both China and Russia are doing stuff. That makes six? Are there any other nations or organizations?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: red1066 4/14/2025 11:26:41 AM (No. 1932179)
It was nothing but a publicity stunt, and can we please stop with this female empowerment BS. Enough already. What's next? A program highlighting the achievement of females getting their driver's license?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 4/14/2025 11:30:32 AM (No. 1932182)
Oprah was there, in tears. Melodrama for the cameras? Or perhaps genuine because Gayle got the publicity and not her?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: singermom9 4/14/2025 11:34:55 AM (No. 1932188)
Too bad they returned safely. Should have had to stay out there for 9 months like biden left our REAL astronauts.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Rather Read 4/14/2025 11:39:29 AM (No. 1932191)
I enjoyed seeing William Shatner go up into space for real. These women? Not really
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Reply 11 - Posted by: jimincalif 4/14/2025 11:39:29 AM (No. 1932192)
“Spam in a can” - Chuck Yeager.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 4/14/2025 11:39:37 AM (No. 1932193)
Not space and not a crew, just passengers. The X-15 plane few as high in the early 1960s but it was going a lot faster. When the Blue Origin tops out its not moving at all, then starts to falls back.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: RobertJ984 4/14/2025 11:42:38 AM (No. 1932196)
All female crew.... I wonder if their menses all synced up?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: earlybird 4/14/2025 11:44:09 AM (No. 1932198)
Who dug up Katy Perry? And Gayle King? And Bezos's honey has never been known for hiding her light under a barrel. What is Blue Origin?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: bpl40 4/14/2025 11:57:12 AM (No. 1932205)
Anything "All female this or all female that " ends up demeaning real women and contributing to keeping them second class citizens. Vote for me because I am a woman is the worst. A female carrier pilot with PMS trying to land a multimillion dollar jet on a pitching carrier deck is not that far fetched an example. And it can get deadlier. The jet that flipped over in Toronto was an all female crew apparently put together for woke points.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 4/14/2025 12:08:51 PM (No. 1932209)
New Shepard doing exactly what old Shepard did 64 years ago in 1961. It's like the human cannonball at the circus.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Max Bear 4/14/2025 12:23:49 PM (No. 1932217)
Crew? They were just cargo.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: valinva 4/14/2025 12:45:18 PM (No. 1932231)
Just watched the lift off and landing. Going to space in a replica of a male member for 4 minutes and coming down in the head. It is like the movie Space Balls.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: MsMontana 4/14/2025 12:49:21 PM (No. 1932233)
Good grief. *eyeroll*
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Reply 20 - Posted by: franco 4/14/2025 12:55:57 PM (No. 1932235)
#6: India sent a probe to land on the moon a couple of years ago, but I think it made a harder landing than they planned for and it stopped communicating shortly afterward. It isn't clear what they will do to follow-up.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Venturer 4/14/2025 12:57:37 PM (No. 1932237)
A Disney world ride for the rich and famous. I am glad they enjoyed their trip, why not, if you have the cash or are sleeping with someone who does. But it isn't exactly a space adventure, like the other poster said, It's a carnival ride for those who can afford it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Bogasso 4/14/2025 1:33:31 PM (No. 1932250)
Maybe they were mimicking the plot from The Reluctant Astronaut with Don Knotts. To demonstrate the fool-proofness of their ship, they sent it up with a bunch of morons on board to prove it’ll take anyone up and return intact.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: anniebc 4/14/2025 2:13:11 PM (No. 1932259)
What kind of fakery was sucked off of them while in space?
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Luandir 4/14/2025 4:03:05 PM (No. 1932316)
When you train for a mission for only two days, it's not real astronautics. Those seats were not earned, they were bought - likely with someone else's money, most likely earned by a man.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: DVC 4/14/2025 4:35:34 PM (No. 1932347)
"Crew"? Baloney, this thing is fully automated, like riding a roller coaster on steroids....the computer flies it. They were all passengers.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Sully 4/15/2025 8:01:03 AM (No. 1932766)
The mission was shortened because the ship would only turn to the left.
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