‘There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs’
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin all-women trip to space has come under fire from various celebrities for being tone deaf to the current state of the world.
If you thought therapy was expensive charging at least a dollar an hour, well, Blue Origin’s all-women spaceflight makes it seem cheap.
For a mere four minutes in space and total of 11 minutes round-trip, a six-women team – including the likes of Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez – became the first all-female crew to visit space since Valentina Tereshkova was sent up in 1963.
The cost for that four minutes of space-seeing? Well, according to Pocketmags it costs about $64 to $88 million – and that’s per seat. Times by six and that’s $384,000,000 to $528,000,000 – and that’s not even taking into account all the other stuff.
Either way, it’s a heck of a lot of money and it’s not taken long for other celebrities to weigh in.
In an episode of Today with Jenna and Friends which aired on April 3, New Girl star Olivia Munn questioned what the all-women crew are ‘doing,’ quoted by Page Six.
Gayle King arrives back on Earth following the Blue Origin space flight on April 14, 2025
She continued: “I know this probably isn’t the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now. I know this is probably obnoxious, but like, it’s so much money to go to space, and there’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs.
“What’s the point? Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride? I think it’s a bit gluttonous.”
The actor argued ‘space exploration’ is typically about ‘further[ing] our knowledge and to help mankind’.
“What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here?”
And Munn wasn’t the only one to comment on the spaceflight, as fellow actor Amy Schumer also took to her Instagram on the day of the launch to poke fun at it.
Schumer took to her story and jokingly told followers: “Guys, last second, they added me to space and I’m going to space. I’m bringing this thing, it has no meaning to me but it was in my bag and I was like on the subway and I got the text.
“[…] Thank you to everyone who got me here and I’ll see you guys in space.”
Calling Perry, Sanchez and Newam her ‘guiding lights’ through the ‘journey,’ Schumer resolved: “How high were the people who came up with the name for space. They were like, ‘What should we call it? There’s so much space’ And they were like, ‘That’s it.’
“That’s the best they could do? Space? But okay. I’m going there and I can’t wait.”
Don’t Worry Darling director Olivia Wilde also took to her story to share a meme of Perry, captioning the post: “Billion dollars bought some good memes I guess.”
However, those onboard the flight have hit out at any criticism.
King told People ‘anybody that’s criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is happening here’ given the ‘response’ the crew has been receiving from ‘young women’ and ‘girls’.
She added: “I get really fired up. I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don’t just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle.”