Jessica Alba Defends Blue Origin Space Flight amid Criticism – ryan
Jessica Alba is defending Blue Origin’s all-female space flight — and wants people to channel their criticism and “anger” to “denouncing President Donald Trump’s abuses of power.”
On Wednesday, April 16, the Honest Company co-founder reposted a comment on her Instagram from The View’s Ana Navarro that urged their followers to focus on politics instead of the historic but controversial trip.
“I’ve seen endless criticism of five women doing their space thing,” Navarro, 53, wrote in the original Instagram post. “I can’t see how it affects our lives.”
Navarro continued, “I wish people would show (the) same energy and focus that anger toward fearlessly denouncing (President) Trump’s abuses of power. Which do affect countless lives in the US and the world.”
Alba, 43, reposted Navarro’s words and added one of her own — “This” — along with a finger emoji pointing to the political strategist’s comments.
Alba and Navarro’s response comes as a growing number of other celebrities have waded into the discussion, too, following the 11-minute private rocket flight to the boundary of outer space on Monday, April 14.
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The crew — which included Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King, Katy Perry, former NASA engineer Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist and activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn — rode a New Shepard rocket to the edge of the atmosphere after launching from Van Horn, Texas on Monday morning.
Following their return to Earth, the crew — the first female space light in six decades — was met with increasing debate about the short flight.
On Tuesday, King returned to her CBS Mornings co-host roles and clapped back over the outcryechoing previous comments she made to PEOPLE.
“Space is not an either or, it’s a both and, and because you do something in space doesn’t mean you’re taking anything away from Earth,” she said. “And what you’re doing in space is trying to make things better here on Earth.”
She continued, “What Blue Origin wants to do is take the waste here and figure out a way to put it in space to make our planet cleaner. (Founder) Jeff Bezos has so many ideas, and the people that are working there are really devoted and dedicated to making our planet a better place. That’s No. 1.”
Still, others have attacked the flight’s cost and its effect on the environment.
Olivia Munn slammed the trip on an April 3 episode of Jenna & Friends while Olivia Wilde echoed Munn’s sentiments in an Instagram Story after the event, writing alongside a photo of Perry kissing the ground upon the landing of her space capsule: “Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess.”
But country star Luke Bryan was more positive, saying that he watched the flight and hoped for the best.