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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Adrian Horton

Celebrities criticize all-female rocket launch: ‘This is beyond parody’

Olivia Munn, Amy Schumer and Olivia Wilde.
Olivia Munn, Amy Schumer and Olivia Wilde. Composite: Alamy/Getty images/Rex

The all-female Blue Origin rocket launch may have received plenty of glowing media coverage – but not everyone is impressed.

The stunt has drawn criticism from a number of female celebrities who were not keen on the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin NS-31 mission, which included Katy Perry, Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sanchez, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn and, in a twist straight out of Apple TV’s The Morning Show, CBS Mornings host Gayle King.

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