Gayle King Fumes About ‘Very Irritating’
Media Coverage of Her Space ‘Ride’:
‘They Never Say Men Went for a Ride’
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Ahmad Austin Jr.
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Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/15/2025 6:55:31 PM
Gayle King on Tuesday suggested it was sexist to characterize her brief trip into space with Blue Origin as a “space ride.” King and several other celebrities — including pop star Katy Perry — took part in an all-woman space flight Monday morning. The fiancee of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos was also part of the group. In the aftermath of the 11-minute trip, critics wondered what the purpose of the trip was. Some even flatly dismissed it as a publicity stunt. The next morning, King and fellow Blue Origin crewmate Aisha Bowe talked about scientific impact similar trips on
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/15/2025 7:06:18 PM (No. 1933230)
Admire them. I won't even get on a Ferris Wheel.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/15/2025 7:07:26 PM (No. 1933232)
Seriously? Please, just shut up and go away. You are a "space hero" in your eyes only. They shot you into the atmosphere, you hung around there for a few minutes then gravity took over. What do you want us to do? Throw you a parade? s/o
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Did I miss something? Some sort of agricultural research was accomplished on that "mission"? And if so, what was Gayle's roll? Safety observer?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 4/15/2025 7:12:25 PM (No. 1933236)
Did any of them pilot the rocket? Were they crew members doing vital functions? No, it was a rich guy's version of picking up chicks for a ride in his limo. They rode the rocket. I am envious but not doing the hero worship.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 4/15/2025 7:26:40 PM (No. 1933241)
Agricultural research? Like what effect pooping your pants in the upper atmosphere has on crops? THAT kind of agricultural research?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 4/15/2025 7:35:26 PM (No. 1933244)
They were PASSENGERS. I am embarrassed to be a woman by their behavior and statements. Please go away.
BTW, could that rocket be more phallic?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 4/15/2025 7:36:25 PM (No. 1933245)
They were not gone long enough to need to use a restroom.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/15/2025 7:41:09 PM (No. 1933249)
I know, this isn't nice, but King is a very unattractive woman. No idea what Oprah sees in her. A few wealthy women went for a joy ride and really, who cares!
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She’s Oprah’s girlfriend.
Thus she is very important, peasants.
Also, this was serious science. It was testing the safety of fake boobs, Botox, and lip filler under zero G conditions without endangering sentient life. And that’s just what Katy Perry did.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/15/2025 7:43:26 PM (No. 1933251)
John Glenn did it in 1961? When it was an EXPEREMENT not a thrill ride for princesses.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GOPinTN 4/15/2025 8:02:10 PM (No. 1933255)
Just an E ticket on Space Mountain - didn't even need a pilot on board.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/15/2025 8:14:10 PM (No. 1933264)
I don't care one way or the other about their Disney World ride. Anyone who can afford it IMO is welcome to go. Just remember those who decided to go down to see the Titanic and imploded.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 4/15/2025 8:53:11 PM (No. 1933280)
Blue Origin cannot hold a candle next to Spacex's raging inferno of innovation.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 4/15/2025 9:02:50 PM (No. 1933283)
It would be bigger news if any men had ever said Gayle took 'em for a ride.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/15/2025 9:09:12 PM (No. 1933285)
Sure the did. William Shatner comes immediately to mind. And he came back awed and humbled. Not harping like a shrill shrew with its panties in a twist.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
thefield 4/15/2025 9:27:45 PM (No. 1933295)
The ladies paid for the ride, just like the men. So what? Just admit it and let it be done. This whole story is over blown.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hershey 4/15/2025 9:28:53 PM (No. 1933296)
Well honey, if'n you ain't doing nuthin to steer the ship, you are just riding...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 4/15/2025 9:34:29 PM (No. 1933298)
Dumb as rocks.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/15/2025 9:46:39 PM (No. 1933302)
Men didn’t get to go on the ride just because they were men.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 4/15/2025 10:49:35 PM (No. 1933316)
Is every person that flies in an airplane Charles Lindbergh.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Cheri Beri 4/15/2025 11:00:53 PM (No. 1933325)
Gayle dear, they didn't say that about men because they were actual astronauts. Many pilots, engineers, scientists, etc. who trained and worked for years to get a chance to go to space. Same with all of the female astronauts who have the right stuff and are legitimately smart and brave. Not glam and sleeping with a billionaire to take an 11 minute ride or being their pal.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/15/2025 11:04:26 PM (No. 1933328)
So give us a list of ten things you did on the ride, besides peeing your pants.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 4/15/2025 11:20:49 PM (No. 1933332)
Does King think these women should all get gold stars for taking a ride? You went, Missy, because you want the media to report on how brave you were, or whatever.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
crashnburn 4/15/2025 11:21:19 PM (No. 1933333)
I nominate #9 for post of the year.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/16/2025 12:41:57 AM (No. 1933348)
Just wondering.... How much of the Dreaded Cee-Oh-Two was generated by this whole operation..... the travel to the launch site by each of these broads, the transport of the rocket and it's fuel, then operating the rocket engine for the flight, then all the recovery operation- cars, trucks, and who knows what else.
But as long as it's Lefties having fun, the Ecological Damage is irrelevant.
By the way, I believe that the 'Globull Warming' scam is the biggest and most expensive Fraud in the history of mankind..... but the Warmistas are strangely quiet on this event.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Sully 4/16/2025 6:35:54 AM (No. 1933402)
We said men flew to space because every single one of them was a fighter pilot who could and did take the controls manually.
We never said men flew the Space Mountain ride by being passengers.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/16/2025 6:36:53 AM (No. 1933403)
The entire thing reminded me of the girls night out. Nothing more.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 4/16/2025 7:06:32 AM (No. 1933425)
"Where are the fawning crowds? Where is the adulation? Where are the hundreds of requests for interviews? What a bunch of misogynists!"
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
happywarrior 4/16/2025 8:08:24 AM (No. 1933457)
Just like they can't force people to watch women's basketball, they can't force people to care about this.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/16/2025 8:23:00 AM (No. 1933463)
An 11-minute trip? I take showers longer than that.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
red1066 4/16/2025 9:06:55 AM (No. 1933482)
Actually, they did say men went for a ride many times in the sixties when in the Titan and Saturn rockets. Of course, she wasn't around to hear that, and her brain has been programmed to hear anything that's not radical feminist propaganda as a lie.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2025 10:59:09 AM (No. 1933595)
Re #4, there is no "pilot", as the first seven US astronauts said when told that they would be flying in the same capsule used to fly chimps, and that it had NO flight controls at all, they balked....saying they didn't want to be "spam in a can".
All were highly experienced test pilots, and resented being treated like lab chimps, literally.
They were able to force NASA to add a control stick to let them control reaction rockets to orient the capsule, and switches to fire the retro rockets for reentry, etc.
And, it turned out that when John Glen did the first orbital mission with these Mercury spacecraft, the heat shield had an indication that it had come loose. This heat shield was required to protect the capsule from burning up during re-entry. John Glenn was forced to align the spacecraft manually, using the hastily added flight controls, and then manually override the automated sequencer and fire the retrorockets and then NOT eject the retrorocket assembly. This was because the titanium straps holding the retro pack onto the center of the heat shield would also hold the heat shield in place, if the warning of opened heat shield latches was valid.
So....the 'spam in a can' would have probably gotten Glenn killed, and as a skilled test pilot, he saved the mission and his life.
Now.....these women were SPAM IN A CAN, and had no controls whatsoever. Chimps or boxes of cupcakes would be a fine cargo. They are passengers, with no crew.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2025 11:05:35 AM (No. 1933606)
Re #10, Al Shepherd and Gus Grissom did the suborbital missions, like this one, in May and July of 1961. The mission with Glenn was an orbital mission, in 1962. The suborbital missions used the Redstone rocket and the orbital used the Atlas rocket.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/16/2025 7:23:35 PM (No. 1933977)
Re #30. Showers? I am in the bathroom for, ahem, other reasons and it's much longer than 11 minutes. What puzzles me is why? Nothing accomplished but a waste of resources and money for nothing more than just a stunt.
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