Across the top of my iPad’s News section, I read this headline:
“Gayle King ‘Very Disappointed’ and ‘Very Saddened’ by Criticism of Blue Origin Flight.”
“There was nothing frivolous about what we did,” the journalist said of the historic, All-Female Space Mission.
If there was ever a WTF moment (let’s be real, there are many of them lately), this is one of them. First, let’s get something straight: if I walk into the shower, I am actually on a space mission. I mean, I am in a “space,” which is just as relevant as this posse of non-scientist celebrity women going up into the sky for 10 seconds.
King goes on in her protest how Bezos was not seeking publicity, this is part of his calculus to improve the world. For example, he is planning on taking garbage to space. Right. While he did manage on this mission to take a lot of plastic off the planet, he brought it right back.
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