Olivia Wilde has an interesting reaction to all-female Blue Origin flight

IANS April 15, 2025 332 views

Blue Origin's latest space mission featured an all-female crew that captured Hollywood's attention. Actress Olivia Wilde responded with a humorous meme featuring Katy Perry's post-flight moments on her Instagram. The mission included prominent women like journalist Gayle King and former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe. While some celebrities like Olivia Munn questioned the mission's relevance, others like Wilde used humor to engage with the historic flight.

"Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess" - Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde has an interesting reaction to all-female Blue Origin flight
Los Angeles, April 15: Hollywood actress-director Olivia Wilde has reacted to Blue Origin's first all-female flight crew making their way to the edge of space. She seems to be amused with the space expedition, and is expressing herself through the simplest mode of communication on the social media landscape, a meme.

Key Points

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First all-female Blue Origin crew reaches space's edge

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Katy Perry brings daughter's daisy on mission

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Multiple women scientists and professionals participate

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Celebrities offer mixed reactions to space flight

Shortly after the New Shepard rocket returned from its round-trip expedition, the actress shared a meme on her Instagram Stories featuring two photographs of Katy Perry as she exited the capsule upon returning to Earth, reports ‘People’ magazine.

One of the images showed Perry holding up Daisy as she smiled from ear to ear while walking outside.

As per ‘People’, the singer took a small daisy into space with her as a tribute to her daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, whom she shares with Orlando Bloom.

The other showed the performer kissing the ground after stepping down a few steps. On top of the two photos was a text that read, "getting off a commercial flight in 2025 #BlueOrigin”. Wilde shared the meme with the message, "Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess”.

While Perry was the only one featured in the meme, the trip to the outside of the Earth's atmosphere also included journalist Gayle King, philanthropist Lauren Sanchez, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

Before Monday's takeoff, others criticized the mission, including Olivia Munn, who questioned its need while co-hosting the April 3 episode of Today with Jenna and Friends. Tuesday's mission was the 11th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.

“I know this probably isn’t the cool thing to say. But there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now”, she said as per Page Six.

Actress Emily Ratajkowski also criticized the mission, as she said in a TikTok, "That’s end time s***. Like, this is beyond parody”.

Reader Comments

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Sarah K.
Love Olivia's meme game! 😂 Space tourism might be controversial but you gotta admit that Katy Perry meme was gold. Also, taking a daisy for her daughter? So sweet!
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Marcus T.
While I appreciate the humor, I do think Olivia Munn has a point. With all the problems on Earth, spending billions on space tourism does feel tone-deaf right now. Respectfully disagree with Wilde on this one.
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Jamie L.
That daisy tribute got me emotional 🥺 Space or not, moms will always find ways to connect with their kids. Beautiful moment captured there.
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Trevor H.
Can we just appreciate that we're living in a time where an all-female space crew is making headlines? Progress looks different for everyone, but this is pretty cool.
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Anika R.
The meme was funny but I wish they'd highlighted more of the scientists on board instead of just focusing on the celebrities. Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen's stories are way more interesting IMO!
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Derek P.
People getting mad about space tourism while still buying $1000 phones every year... the hypocrisy is real. Let people enjoy things!

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