Megyn Kelly blasts Blue Origin’s all-female 11-minute space mission, calls it Jeff Bezos' 'fantasy'

VAN HORN, TEXAS: Megyn Kelly didn’t hold back on her show this week, blasting Blue Origin’s recent all-female space flight as a tone-deaf PR stunt powered by money, ego, and zero sense of self-awareness.

The flight, led by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and featuring big names like singer Katy Perry, Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez, and CBS News host Gayle King, took off on April 14, Monday. It lasted just 11 minutes, but the backlash has been going on much longer, reports Daily Mail.

Megyn Kelly slams Jeff Bezos' space ambitions as 'sexual fantasy rocket'

“The ladies of the Blue Origin's mission, the space mission, they're talking about it like it was Apollo 11,” Megyn Kelly scoffed on 'The Megyn Kelly Show'.

“They are getting ripped now, not just from the Megyn Kellys of the world, but from all these lefties, all these Hollywood celebs are going on Instagram and elsewhere and expressing their disdain for what these women did and how they're celebrating themselves.” 

“It’s amazing,” the speaker said. “We're all part of some weird Jeff Bezos sexual fantasy right now. I really do.”

In her signature no-holds-barred style, Kelly tore into the group’s self-congratulatory tone post-flight. “It's so amazing. They went to see space and we're supposed to see them, right? They admired the universe and what they were expecting was for us to admire the fact that they were rich enough and famous enough to have been granted this utterly vacuous experience from which they learned absolutely nothing.”

Megyn Kelly fires back as Gayle King calls herself astronaut

Gayle King is under fire after defending her 11-minute suborbital jaunt aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin craft, and yes, she compared it to a real space mission.

In a recent interview, the CBS anchor pushed back at mounting criticism. “Don’t call it a ride,” Gayle said. “It's called a flight or a journey. A ride implies it's something frivolous or light hearted. There's nothing frivolous about what we did.”

She added, “I'm very disappointed and saddened by (the hate). What it's doing to inspire other women and young girls, please don't ignore that.” She even implied that public reaction would’ve been different had the passengers been men: “You never say that to male astronauts.”

Megyn Kelly wasn’t having any of it.

On her podcast, she torched King’s comments with sarcasm, stating, “I'm still stuck on the fact that Gayle King actually used the word "astronauts" in reference to (herself and the other women on the flight). Like an actual astronaut. You are there on a vanity project of Jeff Bezos and his fiancee. You've done absolutely nothing to deserve this. You're sitting next to Katy Perry. If you don't want people to think it's frivolous, Gayle, then don't have the f*****g Kardashians craft-side as you take off and Oprah.”

Kelly added, “That might have something to do with our reaction to this non-serious event, a PR stunt.”

Olivia Munn, Emily Ratajkowski and Amy Schumer mock PR-heavy spaceflight

Media personality Megyn Kelly and several celebrities, including Olivia Munn, Emily Ratajkowski, and Olivia Wilde, are voicing strong opposition to a recent all-women civilian spaceflight that was touted as groundbreaking—but is now being slammed as “tone-deaf” and “disgusting”.

“I think there’s an element of a stolen valor feel to it,” said Kelly on her show. “We revere our astronauts, our actual astronauts, who actually do put themselves in harm's way in order to forge new frontiers. We've seen astronauts, actual ones, die in the name of this service. There have been civilians to go up to they wear actual space suits.”

Kelly sharply criticized the flight’s branding as a historic space mission, noting that the crew’s training was limited to “learning how to buckle a seatbelt” and pressing buttons to talk to mission control.

“That doesn’t make you an astronaut,” she continued, referencing the dangerous work and sacrifice real astronauts undertake. “They actually seem to have expected a Neil Armstrong-type welcome home. Sorry, Gayle and everybody else on board.”

Actress and activist Olivia Wilde took a jab at the flight’s billion-dollar backing with a post that read, “A billion dollars bought some good memes I guess,” accompanied by a photo of Katy Perry kissing the ground.

Comedian Amy Schumer also weighed in with a parody of the event. Model Emily Ratajkowski didn’t hold back, calling the whole spectacle “shocking” and downright “disgusting.”