Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King addressed criticism of their Blue Origin space flight in an interview with CBS before takeoff.
The ladies of Blue Origin are standing up for their historic space flight.
Hours before takeoff on Monday morning, the all-female crew of Blue Origin’s New Shepard 31 — including Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez — sat down with “CBS Mornings” and addressed the criticism of their space journey.
“There’s always positive and negative, always,” said Sanchez, 55, who is engaged to Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.
“And Blue Origin’s mission is for the benefit of Earth,” she noted. “You should go walk around and ask anyone who works here how they feel about this mission. I think you’ll get choked up.”
“And so to me, I think it’s just a little misunderstood,” Sanchez continued. “Especially for all of the people that make this flight possible, to make it safe.”
King, 70, similarly defended the space flight and said it was helping, not hurting, the planet.
