You know, I was just going to ignore the bizarre Blue Origin flight of earlier this week. But then he exceeded my craziest imagination, so we are all.
Undoubtedly, you already know the contours: the fiancée of Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez, the pop star Katy Perry and four other women made a large space tourist trip in the name of performative feminadyism, bearing “space combinations” to require a spanx pair below. “We are going to fly eyelash extensions in the capsule,” said Sánchez. “We are going to put the” ass “in the astronaut,” said Perry.
This has promised to be a marketing boon for a nation added by the show. What happened instead was a shocking amount of counterpouss. Tiktoks mocking Katy Perry’s feint enthusiasm for “astronomy and astrology”. Suggests that the whole trip was rigged. Video sequences of what seems to be Bezos literally falling on his face in Texas. Has Bezos even really opened the capsule door? Proclamations that the flight “showed the total defeat of American feminism”. Debates on social networks on the question of whether women on board were passengers or the crew.
Look, the ass has always been in astronaut
I’ve been sitting here for a few hours now, trying to understand how it happened, when my fearless chief sent me Tiktok after Tiktok how stupid everything was.
Look, the ass has always been in the astronaut – NASA means that those aboard the ISS will not miss the day of the legs. Even in normal circumstances, Perry, Sánchez and the other women would be guilty of having delivered an expired rhetoric on the way in which the realization of space tourism recovered the science of girls. But here, everything happened against the beating of insistent beating of budget cuts with real NASA, while the other Rocket entrepreneur, Elon Musk, reorganized the agency for the benefit of itself.
The power of private space flight outfits like Blue Origin is a failure of politics, and it is more and more dangerous. Once upon a time, the United States did not need to count on the rich unstable to bring astronauts to space; NASA has built its own rockets. But after a series of republican budget cuts, some libertarian bulbs had the idea of the commercial crew program, which awarded contracts in 2014. Rhetoric was that it would be at a lower cost for someone other than NASA to build NASA rockets; In any case, after the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, NASA had no way of sending astronauts alone.
The advantage of the program was that it was at a fixed price; The drawback was that he made desperately desperately desperately desperately dependent on his entrepreneurs: SpaceX and Boeing.
I think that in this stage, we can all agree that the commercial crew program was an important point of failure for American democracy
How is it going? Well, Boeing has blocked certain astronauts – including a real female astronaut – in space when her starliner worked badly; They had to be saved from the ISS by SpaceX. SpaceX was more technically Success, but that means that when musk has drunk badly – whether by smoking grass, making unprecedented launches, polluting or anything – there was nothing that the government could really do it. They needed his rockets too much. I think that, at this stage, we can all agree that the commercial crew program was an important point of failure for American democracy, supporting Musk SpaceX for so long that Musk could steal from the most sensitive data of the Americans, wreaked havoc on Social Security and use X, formerly known as Twitter, to recruit an unknown number of baby moms.
Blue Origin, on the other hand, has barely stayed in the running. The company has existed for 20 years now, has received only $ 25.6 million by the commercial crew in exploratory grants, and its first heavy launch of The New Glenn, the type of rocket that sends satellites and equipment, occurred in January this year. None of its well -known launches are intended for people. And while the launch cadence is ambitious for a new rocket, the company is still lagging behind SpaceX – while mainly doing small escapades to engage in the vanity of Bezos and Sánchez.
So, in this context, Blue Origin’s space tourism seems particularly silly, in particular with a rumor price of $ 28 million per seat. (Dennis Tito paid $ 20 million to spend several days aboard the ISS in 2001, moreover, so the trip of Blue Origin seems much less cool than that of more than 20 years ago.) The new Shepard stole until barely What we call space, remaining strictly suborbital. It’s probably pretty cool to see the earth beyond the Kármán line for 11 minutes – I would take this walk if someone offered it to me – but it’s not, you know, revolutionary. It is not even revolutionary for blue origin; Bezos was on the first human mission, as well as other guys.
What breakthrough for feminism – I am right, girls?
You can see the marketing logic of Saving Women for later: First Crew (just by coincidence all men, I am sure), then the crew of women. Ideal for marketing. Two first large. But you-go-girl rhetoric feels strange next to the government’s anti-Femme position; Real astronauts and other women in a direction are literally deleted from the history of NASA. Hey, you know who was at the inauguration of the guy who is responsible for it? Oh yeah, Blue Origin Honcho Jeff Bezos. I mean, Bezos dictated a gain of $ 1 million to the guy whose henchmen took photos of women in science. Amazon also pays $ 40 million for the privilege of a documentary on Melania Trump, led by Brett Ratner, accused of sexual misconduct and rape.
And in addition to that, the reason why Sánchez was on board the Blue Origin flight is that she literally fucks the boss. What breakthrough for feminism – I am right, girls?
The Gayle King broadcaster, who joined Sánchez and Perry on the new Shepard, was delicate about the backlash. “My question is, have you all been in space? Going into space or originating blue and seeing what they do, then coming back and saying:” It’s a terrible thing “,” she said. Baby, I would like to do it, but I earn a normal sum, so I can’t do space tourism, and all the NASA astronaut is in danger seriously. King’s “Let-the-Eat-Gake” is particularly shocking if we consider that the economy is on the rocks thanks to the silly prices, inflation is increasing and that dedemlarization is the agenda. But hey, who is surprised by a rich deaf woman?
It’s not just King feels delicate. Perry is now strengthening with Wendy – it’s true, the joint of fast food – on some medium tweets. Perry’s camp is trying to use People excuse.
The thing is that King, Perry, and the rest is not the real bad guys here. They were taken a look. The problem is Bezos, who plays a game to do something valid – what? Impress her girlfriend? Make it a cowboy? Posed as being somehow better than musk? It seems that if Bezos wanted to make a difference, he could use his vast influence to fight against the destruction of NASA. Instead, he plays with his toys.
Whatever happens here, it doesn’t work. Even a nation that loves nothing better than falling for the show does not bite it. It is perhaps just that Perry is in her flop era, and she poisoned the well; It may be that Sánchez, entertaining like her, has the worst media instincts that I have ever seen. Or maybe some of us have become really tired of performative feminism even if abortion rights have been vaporized and access to the contraceptive is increasingly threatened. It may be just that nobody faces Bezos or his businesses. In one way or another, entirely female space tourists have turned into a cosmic joke.
