JOSH DUNLAP (@JDunlap1974) ~ Who thinks this is one of the dumbest things they've seen in a long time?
"CBS Mornings" co-host King is upset with people who are calling their mission simply "a ride," even though it was just a ride. King didn't stop there, though: She compared her trip to that of Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space and the fifth person to walk on the moon's surface.
End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) ~ Gayle King wants to be treated like a real astronaut: "Nobody calls it a ride if male astronauts go to space."
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1912525151368884352
She feels calling it a ride is a little disrespectful to what the mission was. And what was the mission?
End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) ~ "Why am I different than Alan Shepard?"
Because he's a white man and she's a black woman. Isn't it obvious?
SK ( @SteCK1878 ) ~ Do you think she realizes that there are actual female astronauts and that it’s not a male/female competition?
Elon Musk and SpaceX just returned to Earth a female astronaut whom the Biden administration left stranded on the International Space Station for nine months on what was supposed to be a one-week mission.
Scribe Light (@Scribe_Light) ~
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The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) ~ Being a passenger on an airplane does not make you a member of the flight crew. Same goes for space flight. You don't get to redefine words to fit your personal political narrative.
Observer88 ( @JR42845598 ) ~ 11 minutes from start to finish?
Yeah, that's a ride.
Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) ~ Calling a ten minute suborbital hop the same as Alan Shepard’s moonwalk is wild. Inspiration is great, but let’s not rewrite history. Shepard trained for years, logged 216 hours in space. This was a tourist ride, not NASA level heroism. Let’s stay grounded.
David Pollack (@DavidPollackUSA) ~ Fighting the Fake News with Facts:
That Blue Origin flight with Katy Perry and other women did not really go to space like the media is portraying. They didn’t actually experience micro gravity either.
Yes, technically the rocket delivered passengers beyond the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space at 62 miles BUT:
They really just hit that point at apogee. There was no orbital insertion. Not even close.
The brief state of weightlessness during the ascent and descent was not due to escaping Earth's gravity, but because of a combination of freefall and the absence of a supporting force (similar to the sensation of being weightless at the peak of a roller coaster). Essentially they were falling towards earth and the absence of the rocket's upward thrust simulated a feeling of weightlessness.
Basically, it’s a capsule launched really high and then it immediately falls back down to earth.
All the floating around, the drama, and Katy Perry’s girl power bullshit…it’s fake. She’s not a damn astronaut, she’s a Hollywood elite who thinks she’s special.
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1912547365644620049
A computer piloted the entire flight. Alan Shepard she is not.
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