Martha Stewart is the latest to make a jibe about Katy Perry‘s recent space flight.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space tourism company Blue Origin sent the ‘E.T.’ singer to space on Monday (April 14), alongside an all-female crew – made up of TV host Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, scientist Amanda Nguyen, entrepreneur Aisha Bowe and author Lauren Sánchez.
The trip was roundly criticised, with actress Olivia Munn branding Perry “gluttonous”, Emily Ratajkowski saying she was similarly “disgusted” by the space flight and Lily Allen calling the mission “out of touch”, saying there was “no fucking reason” for it.
Fast food chain Wendy’s also weighed in on social media, jokingly asking if they could “send Katy Perry back to space”, and adding: “When we said women in stem this isn’t what we meant.”
Now, TV personality Stewart has made her own subtle jibe. Reminding fans she too had experienced zero gravity, she posted a video of her aboard a Boeing 727 called G-Force One back in 2007, captioned: “In case you spaced out in 2007, Martha has always been ahead of her time.”
Reiterating she had already “experienced what astronauts feel when they reach zero gravity,” the Godspeed You! Black Emperor fan wrote over the top of the clip: “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind?” a song lyric from Perry’s 2010 hit ‘Firework’.
Meanwhile, Gayle King has addressed the criticism of the space flight, saying in a new video: “I’ve certainly read some of the things online, coming from people that I know, that I like, that I consider friends. This is what I would say to that: 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”.
