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Gayle King 'Very Disappointed' by Criticism of Blue Origin Spaceflight
Gayle King said she is ‘disappointed’ and ‘saddened’ by criticism of the all-women Blue Origin spaceflight after celebrities, including Olivia Wilde, slammed the trip
“I’ve certainly read some of the things online coming from people that I know, that I like, that I consider friends,” the CBS Mornings host, 70, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview published on Tuesday, April 15, just 24 hours after she and five other women entered space for around 11 minutes. King, Katy Perry, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and Blue Origin founde r Jeff Bezos ‘ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, made history Monday, April 14, as they became the first all-women crew aboard a spaceflight since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova ’s 1963 solo trip. However, the trip has received criticism from the likes of Olivia Wilde and Emily Ratajkowski, who spoke out against the expensive journey amid a cost-of-living crisis in the U.S. and its impact on the environment.
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